DSC_3560 Seaweed darkling beetle (Chaerodes trachyscelides) dark form on dark sand. Adapted to digging into wet sand. Omaui Beach, Southland *
11005-71201 Cromwell chafer (Prodontria lewisii) flightless. The only beetle to have a protected reserve devoted to it. Discovered about 1900, and so far only in rough pasture around Cromwell *
DSC_8890 Cromwell chafer (Prodontria lewisii) flightless. The only beetle to have a protected reserve devoted to it. Discovered about 1900, and so far only in rough pasture around Cromwell *
