Brown Ant-like Flower Beetle: Dorsal

Brown Ant-like Flower Beetle (Chileanthicus sp)

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."

This species is

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

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