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Pleasing fungus beetle

Thallis compta

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

A small bright orange and black beetle. There were several on this ghost fungus.

Habitat:

Feeding on fungus within the Bendigo botanical gardens.

Notes:

This beetle has been eating the poisonous ghost fungus
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/38624072

http://morwellnp.pangaean.net/cgi-bin/show_species.cgi?find_this=Thalli…

Reference Links:

Erotylidae, erotylidae-pleasingfungusbeetles - lynneforster

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