Red-rimmed Blue Pie-dish Beetle
Dorsal
Red-rimmed Blue Pie-dish Beetle
Red Rim
| Red-rimmed Blue Pie-dish Beetle Dorsal | | Red-rimmed Blue Pie-dish Beetle Red Rim | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Pie-dish Beetle (Tenebrionidae: Heleina) | ||||
| Species: | Red-rimmed Blue Pie-dish Beetle (Pterohelaeus sp ES03) | ||||
| This Photo: | Profile | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~19mm long with basically thread antennae; however the segments are wide & flat. Has a white speckled/dusty look to it's surface that seems to rub off. The red-rim was easily visible to the naked eye, but held up to light here to highight it plus show the semi-transparent nature of it (you can see the leg underneath it) | |||||
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