Xylotrupes australicus
Rhinoceros Beetle at Bundaberg West, QLD
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| Xylotrupes australicus | 20 Aug 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 12 Jan 2025 | Gaylesp8 |
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These large beetles were once frequent while I was growing up, but now only ever seen by me at this spot, it seems a lot of insects spend all night around the lights of the building and end up exhausted the next day. If on their backs and where people can tread on them, I move them to the garden there.
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MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
20 Aug 2025
Thanks for your care a lovely beetle that emerges in summer to mate. Not sure about numbers now and in the past but Christmas beetles, other summer emergent scarabs are also thought to be seriously down in numbers
Location information
- Coordinates 152.331616-24.871229
- Places Bundaberg West, QLD
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 27 Dec 2024 04:39 PM Recorded on
- Gaylesp8 Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Injured / sick Animal health
Collections
- Gaylesp8 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
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Synonyms
Xylotrupes australicus
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