Variegated Clerid Beetle: Dorsal

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:

🔍Dorsal🔎

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.

This species is

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

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