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Pimelopus nothus
About 35mm long. Dead in it's tracks through pine needle leaf litter. Apparently unharmed?
Highway median strip in outer suburbia. Among mostly euclayptus with a few radiata pines and understory grasses and shrubs.
Distribution in Australia http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Pimelopus+...
It is definitely a native rhinoceros beetle, most likely Dasygnathus trituberculatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). The other, very similar Dasygnathus species occurring in Queensland.
Spotted on May 6, 2013
Submitted on May 8, 2013
