Brown Chafer: Female, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Scarab Beetle (Scarabaeidae)

Species:

Brown Chafer (Pimelopus cf sp)

This Photo:

Female, dorsal

Other name:

June Beetle

Thank you Mark Hura for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Large hairy rusty brown beetle. There are many very similar species & genera. Mark said "These are in the Dynastinae sub-family and is most likely Pimelopus, however it could also be a Novapus. Difficult to tell with the females."

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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