Red Flour Beetle
S2, iso-view
Red Flour Beetle
S2, anterior
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| Red Flour Beetle S2, iso-view | | Red Flour Beetle S2, anterior | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Darkling Beetle (Tenebrionidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Red Flour Beetle (Tribolium castaneum)| This Photo: | S2, profile, under | Thank you Malcolm Worthing (M_Worthing) for identifying and Mark Hura & Karen Weaving for helping with the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~3 to ~3.5mm long. Mark id'ed this to a Darkling Beele (Tenebrionidae family), and said "Looks like Tribolium sp. - common pests in grain/flour etc. I'm not that familiar with the tribe" When we then looked into it, at first it seemed like an exact match. We thought the "dozer" like face would be quite unique, but we discovered a number of tribes exhibit this feature. Species such as Lorelus pubipennis look similar, along with members of the tribe Cnemeplatiini. This can be differentiated from Tribolium confusum, which has 4 clubs on the antennae; you can see this one only has 3. Malcolm said "Note eyes partly divided by canthus, not seen in Lorelus pubipennis."
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