Black Comb-clawed Beetle
Face & Feet
Transparent Pie-dish Beetle
Dorsal
Animals
Plants
Info
| Black Comb-clawed Beetle Face & Feet | | Transparent Pie-dish Beetle Dorsal | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Comb-Clawed Beetle (Tenebrionidae:Alleculini) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Black Comb-clawed Beetle (Metistete sp ES01)| This Photo: | Ventral | Thank you Kimberi Pullen for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Alleculini is a tribe, commonly called Comb-clawed Beetles and are an understudied group. There are a large number of similar looking genera in the tribe, let alone species. We have left this id at the tribe level for now until further information is more readily available. Note the very hairy body & legs, as well as large eyes. Reminiscent of the introduced Egyptian beetle, but much smaller at only 12mm long (head & body).
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