Black-necked Jewel Beetle
Face
Chinnocks Jewel Beetle
Dorsal
Animals
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| Black-necked Jewel Beetle Face | | Chinnocks Jewel Beetle Dorsal | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Jewel Beetle (Buprestidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Black-necked Jewel Beetle (Castiarina atricollis)| This Photo: | 🔍Ventral🔎 | Thank you Ralph Foster & Dr Peter Lang for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere A small Jewel Beetle at ~12mm long. It's exoskeleton is primarily purple! There can be some variation on pattern & shading of the yellow to orange with these. Import aspects to look for at the spikes on the trailing edge of the elytra & the shape of pronotum. The pronotum is quite barrel shaped here. They also like certain plants, this one was found in Senna flowers.
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