![]() | Variegated Clerid Beetle Pronotum | Variegated Clerid Beetle Ventral | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
Family: | Clerid Beetle (Cleridae) | ||||
Species: | Variegated Clerid Beetle (Lemidia variegatus) | ||||
This Photo: | Elytra | ||||
Synonym: | Blaesiophthalmus variegatus | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~5.5mm long. Very Velvet Ant like with the naked eye, but on closer inspection with the camera we can see the antennae & body shape are quite different. The whole upper aspect of the body is heavily punctuated. Underneath it is smooth and black. The pronotum has 2 small longitudinal ridges. We found one specimen in April. | |||||
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