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- Beetles in this subfamily usually brown in colour, but may be black or metallic.
They are commonly known as Chafers or Cockchafers. Male and female look no
different.
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- Their life cycle is usually more than one year. Larvae are C-shaped and
soil-dwelling, feed on roots and other organic matter. They pupate in cell
deep in soil. When become adults, they stay remains in the cell, wait until
rain softens the soil and come out. This makes the adults come out from soil
in the same time, synchronizes as the mating flight. Most of them active at
night but some feed during the day.
- Green Scarab
Beetles, Green Chafers
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- Diphucephala sp., body length 8mm
- Green Scarab
Beetles are common in Brisbane in early summer. Whole body is metallic green in
colour. In early summer, we usually find half the leaves of a tree was completely eaten by
those small green beetles. More information please click here.
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- Brown Cockchafer, Rhopaea Cane Grub
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- Rhopaea magnicornis, body length 22mm
- This beetle is brown in colour and with a hairy body. Notice its antennae
is short and fan-like. We find this beetle in summer flying towards our
windows. More information on this page.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 630.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p229.
- 3. Beetles of Australia - Trevor J Hawkeswood, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1987,
p31.
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