Blue Ground Beetle
Posterior
Ellura
Green Sheen Ground Beetle
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Blue Ground Beetle (Carenum speciosum)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Beetles (Coleoptera)
Family: Ground Beetle (Carabidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Blue Ground Beetle (Carenum speciosum)
This Photo:     Ventral

Thank you Connor Graham for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
We found two of these dead near the caravan when we arrived one day.
Both looked identical, but quite different sizes. One being ~25mm long, with the smaller one (shown here) at ~20mm.

Copyright © 2017-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 21-Feb-2017
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.