Speckled-eye Jewel Beetle: S1, dorsal

Speckled-eye Jewel Beetle (Ethonion leai)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Jewel Beetle (Buprestidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Speckled-eye Jewel Beetle (Ethonion leai)

This Photo:

S1, dorsal

Thank you Dr Peter Lang for identifying and Stephan Gottwald for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Seen in Coastal Areas
Must be very small as these are full sized crops.
The eyes looked like attached pollen but they are inside/a part of the eye.
There are a number of genera that look superficially similar; eg Agrilus & Diphucrania.
Peter said "White scale-hair patches mostly confined to inner halves of elytra."

This species is

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

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