Shielded Click Beetle
S2, ventral
Red Click Beetle
| Shielded Click Beetle S2, ventral | | Red Click Beetle | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Click Beetle (Elateridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Lovely Red Click Beetle (Austrocardiophorus amabilis) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1, dorsal🔎 | ||||
| Synonym: | Paracardiophorus amabilis | ||||
Thank you Laurie Cookson for identifying and Mark Hura for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: 1st Record in SA on Atlas: ~4-5mm long. Laurie said "Small, pronotum roundish shape. While some species are all brown or all black, some have distinctive colour patterns like this one. It is Austrocardiophorus amabilis. Elytra basal third red, postmid transverse white oval spots." | |||||
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