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Metriorrhynchus rhipidius
3cm flying beetle with red-brown wing cases and black everything else, long feathery feelers and long proboscis.
Temperate Australian forests and gardens.
Clumsy flyer.
This one has no orange or red on thorax, black only, so I'm thinking long nosed..
There are many lycid beetles. Your one may be the long nosed lycid beetle, and you certainly have an excellent image of the nose. Orange shouldered lycid has orange edged on the thorax. Here are the two; what do you think?
http://www.oocities.org/brisbane_beetles...
http://www.oocities.org/brisbane_beetles...
Lycidae family members are very unstable and small to spot... Very fantastic spotting...Great job Brian...!!
Spotted on Nov 25, 2012
Submitted on Nov 25, 2012
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