New Zealand Invertebrates

DSC_8767 Cromwell chafer (Prodontria lewisii) Principal Scientist Barbara Barratt at AgResearch, Invermay, is a specialist on the chafer and the invertebrate fauna of the tussock grasslands of east Otago. The flightless chafer is the only beetle to have a protected reserve devoted to it. Discovered about 1900, it only lives in rough pasture in this small reserve in Cromwell *

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DSC_8767 Cromwell chafer (Prodontria lewisii) Principal Scientist Barbara Barratt at AgResearch, Invermay, is a specialist on the chafer and the invertebrate fauna of the tussock grasslands of east Otago. The flightless chafer is the only beetle to have a protected reserve devoted to it. Discovered about 1900, it only lives in rough pasture in this small reserve in Cromwell *

DSC 8767 Cromwell chafer Prodontria lewisii Principal Scientist Barbara Barratt AgResearch Invermay specialist chafer invertebrate fauna tussock grasslands east Otago flightless beetle protected reserve Cromwell