While camping, a Queensland researcher happened upon the fluffy specimen and initially thought it was bird poop.
It’s really distinctive. That is a rare characteristic among insects, James Tweed told the news.
Since then, the national science organization CSIRO has verified that this is a completely new family of longhorn beetles.
Mr. Tweed didn’t give it much thought when he initially noticed a little white item on a leaf in the Gold Coast hinterland in December 2021.
However, the entomologist realized it was an entirely different kind of insect after doing a double take.
“It’s about one centimetre long… and covered in long, fluffy white hairs,” stated the man.
“A lot of the hairs stand basically straight upright, and so it gives it a bit of a mohawk type look.”
