Punctate flower chafer
Neorrhina punctata
The punctate flower chafer is an Australian beetle covered in little spots. It belongs to the flower chafers, beetles that love to visit flowers. It is part of the big scarab beetle family.
Lives in
Eastern mainland Australia, from Victoria through New South Wales to northern Queensland
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other flower chafers, it visits flowers to feed on nectar and pollen.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Punctate flower chafer about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Punctate means covered in tiny dots, which is why it is also called the spotted flower chafer.
2
It belongs to the scarab family, the same big family as dung beetles.
3
Over the years it has had several different scientific names, and some were just spelling mistakes.
you asked
Most asked questions about Punctate flower chafer
?Is the punctate flower chafer dangerous?
No. It is a harmless beetle that visits flowers.
?Where does the punctate flower chafer live?
In eastern Australia, from Victoria to northern Queensland.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neorrhina punctata
- Named by
- Donovan, 1805
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Spotted flower chafer
Where the facts come from
- Punctate flower chafer (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Andrew Allen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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