Beetle tracks - OCC Western Warm-up trek - April/May 2021

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This was a very fast critter and I had to pick it up and let it go a few times in order to get some nice tracks :)

The Australian Museum in Sydney identified the beetle for me:

Your beetle is most likely from genus Pterohelaeus, a type of Pie-dish Beetle in the darkling beetle family Tenebrioninae. Their name comes from the extended, flanged nature of their thorax making them look like a pie-dish. These are commonly found in arid areas, as they are well adapted to these environments. They get their water from their food and anything moist they find, which is usually dung or rotting vegetation. The flange may also be used for collecting water from dew or rain, but this is only postulation – it has not yet been confirmed. Their body shape can also aid them in hiding from predators, by burrowing under the sand, all vital, soft parts will be hidden beneath the flange and they can only be removed by being scooped up from underneath, which predatory insects in arid regions cannot do.

We have a page on our website with more information on these beetles which can be accessed here:
australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/pie-dish-beetles/

For more images and locations, please see here: bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.t...

Taken in: Australia / Northern Territory / Simpson (show map)

Taken on: May 28, 2021

Tags:

Australia

Simpson Desert

Andado Station

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Sets appears in: • OCC / ADE Trek - April/May 2021 • Animal tracks

Groups appears in: • CAMELS: WALKING THE SIMPSON DESERT, AUSTRALIA, WITH PACK CAMELS

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