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	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.
	Copyright © 2020 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 05-Apr-2020
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.