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Jewel beetle
Castiarina erythroptera
-37.9502, 145.256
Field Notes
Description:
Feeding on an endemic leptospermum sp. flowers this Lycid mimic Buptrestid beetle had to compete with many other beetle species. About 22mm long.
Habitat:
In a local national park containing a couple of acres of this ti-tree species which was mostly flowering..
Notes:
Lycid mimic Jewel beetle?. Too windy and uncooperative beetles spoiled this shot. With any luck I intend to improve it later this week. <br>
family: BUPRESTIDAE <br>
subfamily: Buprestinae <br>
tribe: Stigmoderini <br>
subtribe: Stigmoderina <br>
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6b… <br>
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PublishedOctober 21, 2014
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