Beautiful Jewel Beetle: S1, Male, Apical Teeth

Beautiful Jewel Beetle (Melobasis speciosa)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Jewel Beetle (Buprestidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Beautiful Jewel Beetle (Melobasis speciosa)

This Photo:

🔍S1, Male, Apical Teeth🔎

Synonym:

Melobasis gratiosissima

Thank you Stephan Gottwald (SteGoBups) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
~9mm Male, larger than usual but still tiny for jewel beetle.
We asked Dr Peter Lang about the rear projections. He replied "The projections are the lobes/teeth of the apical abdominal segment on the ventral side which are not always visible from above. In males (which I think applies here) they are generally more widely spaced than in females."

This species is

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

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