Hairy Ant-like Flower Beetle
Dorsal
Brown Ant-like Flower Beetle
Profile
| Hairy Ant-like Flower Beetle Dorsal | | Brown Ant-like Flower Beetle Profile | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Ant-like Flower Beetle (Anthicidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Brown Ant-like Flower Beetle (Chileanthicus sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | Dorsal | ||||
Thank you Augusto Degiovanni for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere At only ~3.5mm these are very small beetles and easily confused with ants to the naked eye. Notice the interesting rear leg spurs; they can only be seen at certain angles. Augusto also said "This genus was created by Werner 1966, before the species of this new genus were inserted in the Formicomus = Anthelephila. In 2009, Kejval revised the genus where in addition to having redescribed existing species, he also described 30 new species many of them from Australia." | |||||
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