Chinnocks Jewel Beetle: Body

Chinnocks Jewel Beetle (Castiarina chinnocki)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Jewel Beetle (Buprestidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Chinnocks Jewel Beetle (Castiarina chinnocki)

This Photo:

🔍Body🔎

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 ~11mm long.
It's exoskeleton is primarily gold, with green metallic legs & upper body!
These are quite hairy underneath compared with our other Castiarina Jewel Beetle.
This one was found in Sugarwood Flowers (Myoporum platycarpum)

This species is

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

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