Green Diving Beetle: Dorsal

Green Diving Beetle (Onychohydrus scutellaris)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Diving Beetle (Aquatic: Dytiscidae)

Species:

Green Diving Beetle (Onychohydrus scutellaris)

This Photo:

Dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Always amazes us how we find water born animals on Ellura; a semi-arid environment.
Unfortunately we found this one dead, but am happy to use it to help your identification process

~30mm long, with strange "flippers" on it's front legs.

This species is

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

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