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Y’all, I am SO excited about this new beetle that was just discovered!!!!

The freshly-discovered new species of longhorn beetle, Excastra albopilosa. Image credit: James Tweed

Detailed photographs of the Excastra albopilosa specimen found by James Tweed. Image credits: Lingzi Zhou, Australian National Insect Collection

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A researcher from The University of Queensland has discovered a remarkable new genus of fluffy longhorn beetle while camping within a rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland. The freshly named Excastra albopilosa was found by School of the Environment Ph.D. candidate James Tweed, who nearly mistook the beetle for bird droppings. A paper on the discovery has been published in the Australian Journal of Taxonomy. "I was walking through the campsite at Binna Burra Lodge one morning and something on a Lomandra leaf caught my eye," Tweed said. "To my amazement, I saw the most extraordinary and fluffiest longhorn beetle I had ever seen. "Measuring 9.7 millimeters, it was a striking red and black beauty covered in long white hairs."

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Excastra albopilosa

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Découverte en Australie de ce qui pourrait être le plus velu des coléoptères

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Un entomologiste campant avec son partenaire dans le Queensland, en Australie, a trouvé ce qui pourrait être un concurrent pour le coléoptère le plus touffu d'Australie, et peut-être du monde. James Tweed, de l'université du Queensland, a fait cette découverte à Noël 2021 au Binna Burra Lodge, une parcelle de terre privée e

  Guru Med | 22 Mar 2024

  L’étude publiée dans l’Australian Journal of Taxonomy : Excastra albopilosa, a remarkable new genus and species of Lamiinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from southeastern Queensland, Australia et présentée sur le site de l’Université du Queensland : Chance sighting reveals new species of fluffy beetle.

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Chance sighting reveals new species of fluffy beetle

University of Queensland news release:

A researcher from The University of Queensland has discovered a remarkable new genus of fluffy longhorn beetle while camping within rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland.

The freshly named Excastra albopilosa was found by School of the Environment PhD candidate James Tweed, who nearly mistook the beetle for bird droppings.

"I was walking through the campsite at Binna Burra Lodge one morning and something on a Lomandra leaf caught my eye," Mr Tweed said.

"To my amazement, I saw the most extraordinary and fluffiest longhorn beetle I had ever seen.

Fuzzy little guy

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