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Flower longicorn (mimic)
-37.8403, 146.821
Field Notes
Description:
A multi brown small longicorn with very familiar patterns.
This is likely attempting to imitate an ant but the beetle normally has even thickness laterally so this attempt at three bulbous body part looks quite strange and comical.
Habitat:
On a eucalyptus (stringybark) in a nature reserver
Notes:
The specimen recorded by Peter Chew has black prothoracic dots and therefore might be a different species. (Ochrya sp.)
This is similar to an ant, a clerid beetle and a seed bug.
Which is the model and which is the mimic?
Probably all three mimic the ant.
Three possible species
http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/Ento/images/O_variabilis.jpg
http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/Ento/images/O_coaretata.jpg
Alternatively Homaemota is similar
http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/Ento/images/H_basalis.jpg
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