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FAMILY
SCARABAEIDAE
- This page contains information and pictures about Fiddle Beetles that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 18mm
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- The beetle is dark brown in colour with violin-shaped bright
green pattern and this gave its common name. The beetle can be found feeding on
gum tree flower nectar on early summer.
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- On
Nov 2007 in Sunnybank near Bulimba Creek, we saw this beetle was trying to go
into a small hole on a rotting log. The hole was too small for the beetle.
Then the beetle flied away because of our disturbed.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife of Greater Brisbane
- Ryan, Michelle (ed.), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1995, p.91.
- 2. Beetles of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1987,
plate 40.
- 3. Eupoecila australasiae (Donovan, 1805) - Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2002.
- 4. A
Guide to the Beetles of Australia - George Hangay and Paul Zborowski,
CSIRO PUBLISHING April 2010, p101.
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