Striped Ground Beetle: Posterior hairs

Striped Ground Beetle (Trigonothops cf sp ES01)

Class:

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

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Ground Beetle (Carabidae)

Species:

Striped Ground Beetle (Trigonothops cf sp ES01)

This Photo:

Posterior hairs

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~10-11mm long (head & body).
Notice the long sparse hairs on the elytra (wing covers), pronotum (back/thorax shield) & head ... well on most of it's body actually; almost like spines rather than hairs.
They also have an unusual spur on their front legs. Beetles often have spines coming out of their legs, but beetles in this tribe (Amblytelini) have an indent in the leg and a hook; as can be seen in the photos.

This species is

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

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