Thick-thighed Water Scavenger Beetle: S3, profile

Thick-thighed Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilus brevispina)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Water Scavenger Beetle (Aquatic:Hydrophilidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Thick-thighed Water Scavenger Beetle (Hydrophilus brevispina)

This Photo:

🔍S3, profile🔎

Thank you Wojciech Duda (Rzeczpospolita) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~30mm long.
Found 2 dead in the watertank overflow.
Very dark green, with very thick hind legs.
No significant punctuations that can be readily seen thru the detritus.
A very large triangular scutellum.
Surprisingly not related to Diving Beetles

This species is

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

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