Orange Sutured Diving Beetle: Dorsal

Orange Sutured Diving Beetle (Allodessus bistrigatus)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Diving Beetle (Aquatic: Dytiscidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Orange Sutured Diving Beetle (Allodessus bistrigatus)

This Photo:

Dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~3mm long. The two indented lines, or sutures, along the top of it's shoulders from the pronotum to the elytra are diagnostic.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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