ID on a bug please

To:	"'Cog line'" <>
Subject:	ID on a bug please
From:	"Steve Holliday" <>
Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:17:18 +1100

Hi Heather and Fred

This is a feather-horned beetle (family Rhipiceridae, species is probably Rhipicera femorata).

I remember these being fairly common in coastal Victoria when I lived down that way, I believe it has quite a wide distribution in south-eastern Australia. The antenna are quite spectacular up close, see http://www.myrmecos.net/insects/Rhipicera1.html

cheers

Steve

From: F & H Allsopp [
Sent: Thursday, 5 March 2009 2:28 PM
To: COG
Subject: [canberrabirds] ID on a bug please

Can anyone tell us what this bug is pls? We saw it while walking the Great Ocean Walk in Victoria last week. There were several in a small area, then we never saw another one.

Heather & Fred Allsopp

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