Xylotrupes ulysses australicus

3 Rhinoceros Beetle at Doonan, QLD

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Identification history

Xylotrupes ulysses australicus	30 Jul 2019	DonnaTomkinson
Xylotrupes ulysses australicus	21 Jul 2019	michaelb
Unidentified	20 Jul 2019	JBudgie

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michaelb wrote:

21 Jul 2019

This looks like the rhinoceros beetle Xylotrupes australicus:
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c8482685-310f-49db-bdf7-c0636a3ccbe5

AaronClausen wrote:

21 Jul 2019

I love these things, I've only ever seen 1 of them in Byron Bay a few years back.

JBudgie wrote:

22 Jul 2019

Hi Aaron! We have a tree which i think they are attracted to. There were bunches of them on the branches. This was only one bunch. It was weird!

AaronClausen wrote:

22 Jul 2019

That’s awesome Jane. It would be cool to also report the tree and get it ID’d by a moderator so we can establish the link between these guys and your beetle magnet tree!

michaelb wrote:

25 Aug 2019

I've corrected the name to Xylotrupes ulysses australicus after advice from entomologist Kim Pullen.
He said:
"I checked in AFD at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Xylotrupes/complete. The current name is Xylotrupes ulysses australicus, indicating that what was previously called Xylotrupes australicus is now considered a subspecies of X. ulysses."
I've also added Xylotrupes australicus as a synonym.

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