Clerid beetle at Peak View, NSW
Identification history
| Eleale sp. (genus) | 1 Jan 2024 | AlisonMilton | ||
| Eleale sp. (genus) | 1 Jan 2024 | Csteele4 |
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User's notes
I think, after comparing on iNaturalist, that this beetle may be Eleale pantomelas. Flashed very blue/teal in the sun and when in flight. Quite fuzzy underneath, which I struggled to capture in the photographs.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.336307-35.977174
- Places Peak View, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 1 Jan 2024 03:06 PM Recorded on
- Csteele4 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Beetles (Coleoptera) Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) Csteele4 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Feeding on nectar or pollen Insect behaviour on flower
- True Pollinator Insect on Flower
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Bursaria spinosa Associated plant
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Eleale sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Clerid beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1401.47m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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