Domino Ground Beetle
S1, dorsal
Ellura
Bombardier Beetle
Body
 
                      
Domino Ground Beetle (Homethes sp)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Beetles (Coleoptera)
Family: Ground Beetle (Carabidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Domino Ground Beetle (Homethes sp)
This Photo:     🔍S1, profile🔎

Thank you Mark Hura for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
2nd Record in SA on Atlas & 1st Record in SA on iNat:
~7mm long.
Mark was surprised at the limited records on-line and said "Interesting - they are certainly fairly abundant
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This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.