A South Canterbury endemic Mecodema species.
Taught by @philip-howe.
Third time to see this carabid from Timaru district (two are from Claremont bush).
Found in epiphytes and/or leaflitter added to a kiwi nocturnal house and rescued to outdoors
18A Revel Ave, Mount Roskill, Auckland. At light.
Found on my driveway
Found on my driveway
In residential garden
Abundant in flowering Arthropodium
Got larva from driftwood on 9/5. Became to pupa on 10/7. Emergence on 11/9. 34 days of pupa?
In a lizard ACO. Limestone outcrop. Gave off a terrible pong when being handled for photographs.
Dead, in low alpine grassland