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Jewel beetle

Calotemognatha yarelli

Photo by MartinL
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

A banded jewel beetle with nitid blue pronotum

Habitat:

Feeding on flowering mallee gums in the Australian desert.

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Comments (4)
Mark Ridgway
It's mum must have nitid it for it's visit to Melbourne ?? ;)
MartinL
Sometimes wildlife sightings are magical moments when they display bright and unexpected colors. This find was one such moment.

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PublishedJanuary 19, 2016

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