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	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."
	Copyright © 2022-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 17-Oct-2022
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.