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Bark gnawing beetle

Lepidopteryx mastersii

Description:

A minute red spotted bark gnawing beetle.

Habitat:

Under bark on stringybark eucalyptus.

Notes:

Possibly Lepidopteryx sp. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/841... The bark gnawing beetles are from the family Trogossitidae

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3 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 9 years ago

The ID by Ken Walker
Lepidopteryx: mastersii
http://www.bowerbird.org.au/observations...
Thank you Ken.

MartinL
MartinL 9 years ago

Yes, it looks like chicken pox.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Excellent. Rust spots.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Nov 7, 2014
Submitted on Nov 7, 2014

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