False Blister Beetle: S1, profile

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

False Blister Beetle (Tenebrionoidea: Oedemeridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

False Blister Beetle (Sessinia punctum)

This Photo:

🔍S1, profile🔎

Synonyms:

Copidita puncta, Oedemera punctum or Pseudolycus marginatus

Thank you Laurie Cookson for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
~8mm long.
This is shown in "A guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia Part 5" by E.G. Matthews; Fig 129, page 63 as Copidita puncta. None of the official synonym lists show Copidita puncta as a synonym of Sessinia punctum.
We asked Laurie if he could find a reference to the synonymy and it turns out the reference was inferred, not directly listed as is the normal situation (ergo missed by the authorities).

This species is

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

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