Unidentified rhinoceros or elephant beetle at Morpeth, NSW
Identification history
| Dynastinae (subfamily) | 19 Jun 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Dynastinae (subfamily) | 19 Jun 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Scarabaeinae (subfamily) | 1 Jun 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unverified | 17 Feb 2025 | HildaHen |
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User's notes
Is this magnificent very large beetle a Rhinoceros Beetle? Found her (no idea of gender just saying its a femake) in pile of woodchip. Was making a squeeky hissing kind of annoyed sound. Have safely relocated her with the mulch to another location and covered her back up.
1 comment
KimberiRP
wrote:
18 Jun 2025
Yes, it's a Rhinoceros beetle (tribe Dynastini of family Scarabaeidae). Genus is either Xylotrupes or Haploscapanes.
Location information
- Coordinates 151.637344-32.724628
- Altitude 9.3m
- Places Morpeth, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 17 Feb 2025 07:09 PM Recorded on
- HildaHen Recorded by
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HildaHen NatureMapr Hunter Region Dynastinae (subfamily) Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Dynastinae (subfamily) Scientific name
- Unidentified rhinoceros or elephant beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1343.43m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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