Red-rimmed Blue Pie-dish Beetle: Ventral

Red-rimmed Blue Pie-dish Beetle (Pterohelaeus sp ES03)

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:

Ventral

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)

This species is

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

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