![]() | Lycid Beetle Male | Red and Blue Flower Beetle Ventral | ![]() | |||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
Family: | Soft-winged Flower Beetle (Melyridae) | ||||
Species: | Red and Blue Flower Beetle (Dicranolaius sp) | ||||
This Photo: | Bent | ||||
Other name: | Pollen Beetle | ||||
Thank you Thomas Mesaglio for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~5mm long. Males have a cup on their antennae near the base. We thought this was Dicranolaius bellulus Thomas said "lack of red elytral tips should eliminate bellulus" | |||||
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