A Flat-faced Longhorn Beetle

Somatidia sp.

I was struck by the beautiful colourings of this small beetle (about 4-8 mm from memory- I didn’t get a size-calibrated picture). Philip Howe and James Tweed placed it in Somatidia.

Literature I can understand is a bit hard to find, but it looks like there are four species endemic to New Zealand and quite a few more in Australia, Oceania and South-East Asia. Please correct me on this point!

These photos are all of the same individual. Note the tiny mite near its top right eye- passenger or parasite I don’t know.