Rotund Pie-dish Beetle: Dorsal

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:

🔍Dorsal🔎

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)."

This species is

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

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