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Lepidopteryx sp.
A small beetle (1cm) with ribbed elytra and very furry body.
Spotted on Sep 23, 2014
Submitted on Sep 23, 2014
8 Comments
Nice one Martin ! I don't have one of these -must have been Mark's.
Thanks Mark.
It seems that Leperina is the new taxon and Lepidopteryx (= scale wing) is superceded. Ken also has conceded this possibility. ALA only knows Lepidopteryx so I am not sure how to name this one.
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn%3Alsid...
Yours is very similar in furriness to Jean & Fred Hort's from Perth. Maybe you caught a sandgroper on holidays https://www.flickr.com/photos/jean_hort/...
Definitely Lepidopteryx and very similar patterns to Leperina decorata but smaller and furrier. Leperina might be current valid name instead of Lepidopteryx? - see Stephen Thorpe's comment here http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations...
Ken places this in the genus of Lepidopteryx
http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations...
Which seems widespread (including Africa)
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
and has no specific denominations
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...
Sometimes furry surface helps to keep warm in colder latitudes but none of the related species share this feature.
Yours is a prickly character.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/178...