Striped Ground Beetle
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Brown Ground Beetle
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Flat Ground Beetle (Carabidae:Lebiini) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Brown Ground Beetle (Philophlaeus sp ES02)| This Photo: | Dorsal | Thank you Mark Hura (Rhytiphora) for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere This one is a bit larger at ~13mm long (head & body). Notice the long sparse hairs on most of it's body; almost like spines rather than hairs. They also have an unusual spur on their front legs. Beetles often have spines coming out of their legs, but beetles in this tribe (Amblytelini) have an indent in the leg and a hook; as can be seen in the photos. Mark suggested this MAY be Philophlaeus sp rather than Trigonothops sp. As such, for now, we've lifted it to sub-family.
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