Orange-tailed Rove Beetle
QuestaGame came back with a beautiful identification for this animal pointing out its ID on family level Staphylinidae. The observation of this species in Brisbane was obviously not expected since its present records in Australian museums pointed to an occurrence further north. I made up the English name myself for my own purposes. For the tribe Staphylinini there is a taxonomic molecular paper out from 2010: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230415191_Molecular_phylogeny_of_the_mega-diverse_rove_beetle_tribe_Staphylinini_Insecta_Coleoptera_Staphylinidae
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