Rotund Pie-dish Beetle
Anterior
False Blister Beetle
S1, dorsal
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| Rotund Pie-dish Beetle Anterior | | False Blister Beetle S1, dorsal | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Pie-dish Beetle (Tenebrionidae: Heleina) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Rotund Pie-dish Beetle (Saragus sp)| This Photo: | 🔍Ventral🔎 | Thank you Mark Hura for confirming the id of this species for us 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. Mark later said "Cillibus has well developed elytral flanges as opposed to Saragus which has much less developed/no elytral flanges. The large tibial forespur, which can be seen very well in this image, is also a good indication of Saragus, although a couple of other genera also possess this feature (Trichosaragus - essentially a hairy or scale-covered Saragus & Dysarchus which has different shaped pronotum as well as a number of other features that differ)."
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