3 Rhinoceros Beetle at Doonan, QLD
Identification history
| Xylotrupes australicus | 30 Jul 2019 | DonnaTomkinson | ||
| Xylotrupes australicus | 21 Jul 2019 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Unverified | 20 Jul 2019 | JBudgie |
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5 comments
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
21 Jul 2019
This looks like the rhinoceros beetle Xylotrupes australicus:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c8482685-310f-49db-bdf7-c0636a3ccbe5
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c8482685-310f-49db-bdf7-c0636a3ccbe5
AaronClausen
wrote:
21 Jul 2019
I love these things, I've only ever seen 1 of them in Byron Bay a few years back.
JBudgie
wrote:
22 Jul 2019
Hi Aaron! We have a tree which i think they are attracted to. There were bunches of them on the branches. This was only one bunch. It was weird!
AaronClausen
wrote:
22 Jul 2019
That’s awesome Jane. It would be cool to also report the tree and get it ID’d by a moderator so we can establish the link between these guys and your beetle magnet tree!
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
25 Aug 2019
I've corrected the name to Xylotrupes ulysses australicus after advice from entomologist Kim Pullen.
He said:
"I checked in AFD at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Xylotrupes/complete. The current name is Xylotrupes ulysses australicus, indicating that what was previously called Xylotrupes australicus is now considered a subspecies of X. ulysses."
I've also added Xylotrupes australicus as a synonym.
He said:
"I checked in AFD at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Xylotrupes/complete. The current name is Xylotrupes ulysses australicus, indicating that what was previously called Xylotrupes australicus is now considered a subspecies of X. ulysses."
I've also added Xylotrupes australicus as a synonym.
Location information
- Coordinates 152.988168-26.447021
- Places Doonan, QLD
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 30 Dec 2018 08:38 AM Recorded on
- JBudgie Recorded by
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Collections
JBudgie NatureMapr Xylotrupes australicus Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Species information
- Xylotrupes australicus Scientific name
- Rhinoceros Beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 79m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Xylotrupes australicus
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