Variegated Clerid Beetle
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Variegated Clerid Beetle (Lemidia variegata)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.
Copyright © 2020-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 05-Apr-2020
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.