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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	Beetles (Coleoptera)
	Family:	True Weevil (Curculionoidea: Curculionidae)     iNaturalist Observation
	Species:	Riverina Weevil (Amycterus riverinae)
	This Photo:	Dorsal
	Thank you Boris Büche 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: ~15mm long. All those dimples have a single short stiff hair coming from the middle. Almost like a spine.. They eat seeds and other plant matter. One specimen found in Feb.
	Copyright © 2020-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 28-Feb-2020
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.