Sinuate Lipped May Beetle
S6, Adult, Face
Sinuate Lipped May Beetle
S3, Adult, posterior
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| Sinuate Lipped May Beetle S6, Adult, Face | | Sinuate Lipped May Beetle S3, Adult, posterior | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | May Beetle (Scarabaeidae:Sericoidinae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Sinuate Lipped May Beetle (Colpochila sp ES02)| This Photo: | 🔍S3, Adult, Antennae🔎 | Thank you Mark Hura (Rhytiphora) & Kimberi Pullen for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~17mm long. Very similar to the Brown Chafer. These have different head plate; being wider at the very tip. Notice the 4 large antenna blades, most likely used for pheromone detection. We thought these might be Heteronyxsp. Mark said "Simple tarsal claws separate this from Heteronycini tribe. Most likely Colpochila sp".
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