Pie-dish beetle at Evatt, ACT
Identification history
| Pterohelaeus piceus | 3 Apr 2025 | KimberiRP | ||
| Pterohelaeus sp. (genus) | 2 Dec 2024 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 24 Nov 2024 | rbannister |
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Found in a pile of old hardwood palings
1 comment
KimberiRP
wrote:
3 Apr 2025
A very fresh individual; they seem to quickly lose their whitish waxy dorsal coating after emergence.
Location information
- Places Evatt, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- rbannister Recorded by
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rbannister NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Additional information
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Pterohelaeus piceus Scientific name
- Pie-dish beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 798.57m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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