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Green Scarab Beetle
Conservation status: Common
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There are 69 described species of Diphucephala in Australia. They have been found all over the mainland continent, as well as in Tasmania. Adult Diphucephala beetles eat the leaves of a wide variety of plants and the larvae live in the ground and eat roots and other organic matter.
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Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Melolonthinae
Dipucephala
Unidentified
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