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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Flower, Flat Bark and Ladybird Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Minute Hooded Beetles (Corylophidae) » Holopsis » Holopsis marginicollis
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Beetle (Corylophidae) - Holopsis marginicollis
Copyright © 2007 Peter Cristofono

Beetle (Corylophidae) - Holopsis marginicollis
Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 28, 2007
Size: very small, ~ 0.5 mm
A very small shiny black insect on a leaf. A beetle?
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Contributed by Peter Cristofono on 28 September, 2007 - 4:50pm
Last updated 24 January, 2009 - 5:06pm

Moved
Moved from Corylophodes.
… Peter Cristofono, 24 January, 2009 - 5:06pm login or register to post comments

i'm sorry ---
we have it already as Holopsis marginicollis! generic nomenclature in the family is so damn volatile...
… v belov, 24 January, 2009 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Minute Hooded Beetles.
… tom murray, 24 January, 2009 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

Corylophodes marginicollis LeConte, 1852
new gen.+sp.!
(i'm amazed myself how such a minute bug can be IDed to species from a pretty fuzzy pic like this one... :-)
… v belov, 24 January, 2009 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow!
Thank you!
… Peter Cristofono, 24 January, 2009 - 4:03pm login or register to post comments

 
wow indeed, Peter!
could you pls find and shoot more of these??? I KNOW YOU CAN :-]
… v belov, 24 January, 2009 - 4:06pm login or register to post comments

Probably
Corylophidae judging by what I can barely make out on the antennae.
… Jim McClarin, 28 September, 2007 - 6:01pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks, Jim.
… Peter Cristofono, 28 September, 2007 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

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