Pintail Rove Beetle Profile | Pintail Rove Beetle Ventral | |||||
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| Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Rove Beetle (Staphylinidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Pintail Rove Beetle (Sepedophilus sp)| This Photo: | Antennae | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere ~3mm long. Note the hairy/spiny abdomen that pintail beetles don't have, and the short elytra typical of rove beetles. This one seems a little damaged as it couldn't retract it's wings.
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