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Unknown black beetle

Photo by Andrea Lim
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Description:

Small black glossy beetle, 3mm body length. Cruising the flowers of Acacia mangium (Black wattle) Pollen sticks to its legs as it blunders through.

Habitat:

Found on Acacia mangium on edge of grassland at James Cook University, Cairns QLD

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