Red & Blue Flower Beetle
Female: profile
Red & Blue Flower Beetle
Female: profile
| Red & Blue Flower Beetle Female: profile | | Red & Blue Flower Beetle Female: profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Soft-winged Flower Beetle (Melyridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Red & Blue Flower Beetle (Dicranolaius sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female: dorsal | ||||
| Other names: | Pollen Beetle or Red and Blue Flower Beetle | ||||
Thank you Thomas Mesaglio for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~5mm long. We have found these feeding on saltbush flowers We thought this was Dicranolaius bellulus Thomas said "lack of red elytral tips should eliminate bellulus" Interestingly we have found both male & female Dicranolaius bellulus, we have only found females of this species. | |||||
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