What kind of beetle is this?

Following!

This is a very exciting find Rik. Please keep us posted on whether you retained this specimen (for further examination) and if you find more.

I'm nearby in Victoria and have an interest in this group and experience dissecting them. I'm available to help in this regard if you collected any!

… Charlene Wood, 4 February, 2022 - 1:00pm

Hi Charlene, I'm sorry but I

Hi Charlene, I'm sorry but I got the picture from a friend and she doesn't have the bug anymore.
Rik

… Rik 13, 7 February, 2022 - 12:44am

please make sure to update the copyright field accordingly

...and provide details re: how the collection data was obtained
were you present when the specimen was taken/photographed?

… v belov, 7 February, 2022 - 10:33am

Habitat information

Thanks Rik. Do you have information on where it was collected? This is quite unfortunate that the beetle was not retained, given that it appears to be dead in the photo. Would be very useful to have.

I was sampling on Cortes a few years back for a Bioblitz and collected beetles and spiders near the “Children’s forest” but wonder if there’s other interesting habitat where this may have come (or if it was possibly introduced in something brought from overseas)…?

… Charlene Wood, 7 February, 2022 - 7:43am

Wolfgang Rücker says, "It could be Enicmus transversithorax...

"...Dajoz, 1967 known from Chile and Argentina. But there are also similar Enicmus spp. in Asutralia." See Lawrence & Ślipiński (2021) Australian Entomologist 48(3): 161–186
specimens available for study? he needs to see the male parts

… v belov, 3 February, 2022 - 12:03pm

There's something off..

about the antennal club that is atypical of Latridiidae. That pronotum is very distinctive too, and I can't find anything like it within the family.

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. This could be something quite interesting.

What about Derodontidae?

… Marc DiGirolomo, 2 February, 2022 - 10:30am

That's interesting Rik

That's interesting
Rik

… Rik 13, 3 February, 2022 - 3:20pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Brad Barnd, 28 January, 2022 - 12:20am

Looks like Latridiidae

… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 17 January, 2022 - 3:46pm