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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Featherwing[ed] Beetles (Ptiliidae) » Ptiliinae » Ptinellini » Pteryx
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Featherwing Beetle, dorsal - Pteryx
Copyright © 2014 Edward L. Ruden

Featherwing Beetle, dorsal - Pteryx
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
July 27, 2014
Size: 0.73 mm
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I collected this beetle on Tree Spring Trl. 147, 9000 ft, Sandia Crest 7.5’ quadrangle in the Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo Co, NM from a Berlese funnel loaded with the detritus of a decaying pine log in a conifer forest.

It looks very much like a posted Pteryx sp. ID confirmation welcome.

This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 273 images with a 1.8 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 50×/0.55 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 105 mm F2.5 AI portrait lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 26.25×; technique described here).

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Featherwing Beetle, dorsal - Pteryx Featherwing Beetle, lateral - Pteryx Featherwing Beetle, ventral - Pteryx
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 8 December, 2014 - 10:43pm
Last updated 1 July, 2017 - 5:37pm

Moved
Moved from Featherwing[ed] Beetles.

Moved tentatively based on similarity to other posts in genus. Expert confirmation appreciated.
… Edward L. Ruden, 3 April, 2015 - 4:13pm login or register to post comments

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