![]() | Variegated Clerid Beetle Elytra | Green Metallic Clerid Beetle Dorsal | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||||
Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||||
Family: | Clerid Beetle (Cleridae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
Species: | Variegated Clerid Beetle (Lemidia variegata)This Photo: | Ventral | Synonyms: | Blaesiophthalmus variegatus or Lemidia variegatus | Thank you Janet Whitington for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: ~5.5mm long. Very Velvet Ant like with the naked eye, but on closer inspection with the camera we can see the antennae & body shape are quite different. The whole upper aspect of the body is heavily punctuated. Underneath it is smooth and black. The pronotum has 2 small longitudinal ridges.
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