Variegated Clerid Beetle
Elytra
Green Metallic Clerid Beetle
Dorsal
| Variegated Clerid Beetle Elytra | | Green Metallic Clerid Beetle Dorsal | | ||
 | 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 | ||||
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. We found one specimen in April. | |||||
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