Black-necked Jewel Beetle: Dorsal

Black-necked Jewel Beetle (Castiarina atricollis)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Jewel Beetle (Buprestidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Black-necked Jewel Beetle (Castiarina atricollis)

This Photo:

🔍Dorsal🔎

Thank you Ralph Foster & Dr Peter Lang for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A small Jewel Beetle at ~12mm long.
It's exoskeleton is primarily purple! There can be some variation on pattern & shading of the yellow to orange with these. Import aspects to look for at the spikes on the trailing edge of the elytra & the shape of pronotum. The pronotum is quite barrel shaped here.
They also like certain plants, this one was found in Senna flowers.

This species is

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

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