Case-bearing Leaf Beetle: S1, ventral

Case-bearing Leaf Beetle (Aporocera (Aporocera) parenthetica)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Leaf Beetle (Chrysomelidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Case-bearing Leaf Beetle (Aporocera (Aporocera) parenthetica)

This Photo:

🔍S1, ventral🔎

Thank you Johnny B Woodside (JohnnyBWoodside) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Record in SA on iNaturalist:
~6mm long.
Notice the heavily emarginate eyes and long antennae, as well as the 3 lumps along the front of the elytra.
Superficially (to the naked eye) the markings are very similar to Dicranolaius bellulus, but the body shape is quite different.

This species is

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

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