Blue Ground Beetle: Ventral

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.

This species is

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

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