Green Diving Beetle
Dorsal
Ellura
Green Diving Beetle
Anterior
 
                      
Green Diving Beetle (Onychohydrus scutellaris)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Beetles (Coleoptera)
Family: Diving Beetle (Aquatic: Dytiscidae)
Species: Green Diving Beetle (Onychohydrus scutellaris)
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General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Always amazes us how we find water born animals on Ellura; a semi-arid environment.
Unfortunately we found this one dead, but am happy to use it to help your identification process

~30mm long, with strange "flippers" on it's front legs.

Copyright © 2018-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 28-Sep-2018
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.