5 a Jewel beetle at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Melobasis splendida | 19 Jan 2024 | MarkH | ||
| Melobasis sp. (genus) | 19 Jan 2024 | entom2 | ||
| Unidentified | 19 Jan 2024 | Csteele4 |
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User's notes
Landed on my thumb as I was photographing another beetle! Black cross-like markings on back.
7 comments
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
Nice find, or perhaps more accurately, nice of the beetle to find you. Only the second sighting on CNM of this jewel beetle.
Csteele4
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
@MatthewFrawley I certainly feel very honoured! It was a very pretty little beetle.
MatthewFrawley
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
You are in rare company, the only other sighting is from the local jewel beetle master.
MarkH
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
It’s a common and widely distributed species on the east coast and adjacent hinterlands. But, it is very cryptic and difficult to find and is generally just on leaves of things like eucalypts and acacias, most of which are well above the site line of the average person.
Csteele4
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
@MarkH this one must have been on its way somewhere. I was watching a beetle in a Bursaria when it landed on me. My first instinct was to flick it off - glad I didn't!
Harrisi
wrote:
19 Jan 2024
Nice story and sighting! Mother nature always comes up with something special 😊
Location information
- Coordinates 149.458212-35.577254
- Altitude 429.5m
- Places Captains Flat, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Jan 2024 01:22 PM Recorded on
- Csteele4 Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Jewel beetles (Buprestidae) Beetles (Coleoptera)
Additional information
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- False Pollinator Insect on Flower
Species information
- Melobasis splendida Scientific name
- a Jewel beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 632.55m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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