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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Cucujid series » Silken Fungus Beetles (Cryptophagidae) » Cryptophaginae » Cryptophagini » Telmatophilus » Telmatophilus americanus
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Flotsam cryptophagid - Telmatophilus americanus
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

Flotsam cryptophagid - Telmatophilus americanus
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
April 19, 2007
Size: 2.2 mm
Only one of this species found so far among thousands of other beetles from at least 24 other families (plus many other arthropods) by pawing and sifting through flotsam from a substantially swollen catchment basin after several days of heavy, non-stop rain.

I had been expecting the family Cryptophagidae to show up, and this one looked familiar to me. It appears to be the same species as one of my earlier posts.

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Flotsam cryptophagid - Telmatophilus americanus Flotsam cryptophagid - Telmatophilus americanus
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 May, 2007 - 4:58am

A friend of mine . . .
specialized on Cryptophagids. Would be nice if you save them :-)
… Boris Büche, 4 May, 2007 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

 
It's well inebriated.
I'll send it with my shipment, which so far contains just one Dorcat*oma specimen.
… Jim McClarin, 4 May, 2007 - 6:12pm login or register to post comments

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