Photo 3229799, (c) Stephen Thorpe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Stephen Thorpe

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stephen_thorpe

Date

March 27, 2016

Description

Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus.

Habitat: On bark of karo, at margin of level 1 main carpark area.

Identification: Telsimia subviridis (Blackburn, 1892). Male. ID based on the literature (Ślipiński, Pang & Pope, 2005). The first photo shows the 'very characteristic, darted tip of penis.'

REFERENCES
Ślipiński, A.; Pang, H.; Pope, R.D. 2005: Revision of the Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Part 4. Tribe Telsimini.
Annales zoologici, 55(2): 243-269. doi: 10.3161/000345405775008318 Abstract and full article (PDF) on ResearchGate [See p. 255, and Figs 12, 16, 57-60, 91]

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