Rotund Pie-dish Beetle: Ventral

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Darkling Beetle (Tenebrionidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Rotund Pie-dish Beetle (Saragus sp)

This Photo:

🔍Ventral🔎

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
~15mm long. On Bowerbird we all thought these were Cillibus sp, but that's been changed/fixed. While similar, Cillibus sp has much larger flanges on the elytra.

This species is

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

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