Red-headed cockchafer
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| Red-headed cockchafer, Austins Ferry, Tasmania, Australia | |
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| Adoryphorus coulonii (Burmeister, 1847)
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The red-headed cockchafer or red-headed pasture cockchafer (Adoryphorus couloni[1][2] or Adoryphorus coulonii[3][4]) is a species of Australian scarab beetle in the genus Adoryphorus. It is a pasture pest in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania.[1] It has become naturalised in Canterbury, New Zealand, where it was first recorded in 1963.[2]
Description
The adult beetle is 10–15mm long, 8mm wide, and shiny reddish-brown to black. The larva is white-grey in the early stage. Older larva have yellowish legs and a hard red-brown head, and then become white when mature.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Redheaded pasture cockchafer". Agriculture Victoria, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
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