Melobasis ordinata
A Jewel Beetle at Fingal, VIC
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| Melobasis ordinata | MarkH | Yesterday | |
| Melobasis ordinata | Miranda | Yesterday | |
| Aaaba nodosus | CarbonAI | 20 Sep 2026 | |
| Melobasis sp. (genus) | Miranda | 20 Sep 2026 |
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User's notes
I think this is M ordinata based on my sighting last year - not listed as an option in the app.
2 comments
20 Sep 2026
Hi Miranda, I’m assuming there are 2 different specimens photographed here ? The bronze one looks like classical M. ordinata however I’m not sure about the greenish one. It would be interesting to see the ventral colour of the greenish specimen.
Yesterday
Hi Mark, I have split them out into two sightings. Now you say it it seems obvious they're different species - they were all running around on the same bush and I didn't really think about it! I put the others in a new sighting, 4736483.
Location information
- Coordinates 144.852992-38.434061
- Altitude 22.3m
- Places Fingal, VIC
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 20 Sep 2026 09:21 AM Recorded on
- Miranda Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Collections
- Miranda NatureMapr Latest Melobasis ordinata Jewel beetles (Buprestidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) Insects
Species information
- Melobasis ordinata Scientific name
- A Jewel Beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 22.31m to 130.22m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
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6 / 7
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