Minute Beetle - Clambus armadillo

I found four new personal families

in Ecuador but this is one that has continued to elude me.

… Jim McClarin, 22 February, 2010 - 2:16pm

This spring

if you really want to look for one of these, I can show you where I found several of them.

… tom murray, 22 February, 2010 - 7:14pm

Yeah,

that would be nice. Let's do it :-)

… Jim McClarin, 22 February, 2010 - 10:59pm

Once the snow is gone, late March or early April, we can go look for them.

… tom murray, 24 February, 2010 - 2:59pm

Moved

Moved from Clambus.

… tom murray, 22 April, 2007 - 5:56am

Clambus armadillo

Both specimens were this. An introduced European species. Something you would really have to have in hand in order to place to species.

… Donald S. Chandler, 21 April, 2007 - 8:22pm

Moved

Moved from Minute Beetles.

… tom murray, 18 April, 2007 - 11:05pm

Congratulations, Tom!

I'll scratch one more name off the list of families missing from bugguide.

Since this is a new family, anything you can add to the collection data (habitat, weather, time of day, how you found it, etc.) would be very helpful.

… Jim McClarin, 6 April, 2007 - 6:40pm

So noted on

Beetle Family Wish List.

… Jim McClarin, 29 August, 2007 - 10:30pm

Thanks Jim,

When I collected it, it only looked like a tiny black dot that moved.

… tom murray, 6 April, 2007 - 6:42pm

I added some more above:

Since this is a new family, anything you can add to the collection data (habitat, weather, time of day, how you found it, etc.) would be very helpful.

… Jim McClarin, 6 April, 2007 - 6:44pm

Collection data

I found it in a community garden, and probably on the underside of a piece of plywood. I collected it between 1:00 to 2:00pm on a sunny cold day, in the low 40's.

… tom murray, 6 April, 2007 - 8:02pm

Thanks Pierre-Marc

Another new family for the guide!

… tom murray, 6 April, 2007 - 9:11am

keep it

for me please. It doesn't look like the common species, C. howdeni, and so is of interest.

… Donald S. Chandler, 6 April, 2007 - 2:19pm

got it

I just have to sort through the tiny beetles in the fridge to find it.

… tom murray, 6 April, 2007 - 5:14pm

They curl

up when they die, so your small dot will be then 2/3 of a small dot.

… Donald S. Chandler, 6 April, 2007 - 7:48pm

Clambidae

With the size and the pubescence, I would say Clambidae.

… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 6 April, 2007 - 8:41am