Shielded Click Beetle: S1, ventral

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Click Beetle (Elateridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Shielded Click Beetle (Agrypnus sp)

This Photo:

S1, ventral

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~8-9mm long.
The ventral shot is very important here. When comparing the holotype images of species in this genus on-line very few have cut outs in their exoskeleton underneath for antennae and front leg protection. These cut outs/indents seem quite variable amoung the different species; to the point they don't exist in some. We could find any that match our two specimens so think ours are undescribed.

This species is

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

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