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Lycid mimic click beetle

Elatichrosis trisulcatus

Description:

About 22mm long and with colouration and antennae resembling netwing beetles.

Habitat:

In dry, dense sclerophyll eucalyptus forest by a watercourse. This one was sitting still at the very top of a small shrub (unknown species)

Notes:

Endemic to south-eastern Australia including Tasmania.
Synonymous - Pristilophus trisulcatus Erichson, 1842
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:...
order - COLEOPTERA
suborder - POLYPHAGA
superfamily - ELATEROIDEA
family - ELATERIDAE
subfamily - Denticollinae

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1 Comment

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 2 years ago

Handsome& sleek ! Love the antennae.

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Emerald, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Oct 13, 2021
Submitted on Oct 13, 2021

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