Notched-leg Red & Blue Flower Beetle
S3, Female, ventral
Wrinkled-wing Flower Beetle
S1, Male, profile
| Notched-leg Red & Blue Flower Beetle S3, Female, ventral | | Wrinkled-wing Flower Beetle S1, Male, profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Soft-winged Flower Beetle (Melyridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Wrinkled-wing Flower Beetle (Dicranolaius rugulipennis) | ||||
| This Photo: | S1, Male, dorsal | ||||
| Other names: | Pollen Beetle or Red and Blue Flower Beetle | ||||
Thank you Boris Büche for identifying and Gabriele Franzini for helping with 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 2nd Record in SA on Atlas: ~5mm long. We thought this was D. bellulus but Boris indicated the pattern of red & blue are important, and this has the wrong pattern. Boris then said (in relation to the pronotum pattern/marks) "Marks may take about half of pronotum; half of anteriour legs yellowish, etc." | |||||
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