Chauliognathus tricolor, the Tricolor soldier beetle, is a species of soldier beetle in the family Cantharidae.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] It has a flattened body between 6 and 16 millimeters long with a prominent red-orange stripe behind the black prothorax.

The abdomen is yellow-orange but is mostly obscured by the metallic olive green elytra.

[7][8][9] It is found in Eastern Australia and Tasmania.

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