Pintail Rove Beetle: Profile

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Rove Beetle (Staphylinidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Pintail Rove Beetle (Sepedophilus sp)

This Photo:

Profile

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~3mm long. Note the hairy/spiny abdomen that pintail beetles don't have, and the short elytra typical of rove beetles.
This one seems a little damaged as it couldn't retract it's wings.

This species is

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

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