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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Clown Beetles (Histeridae) » Abraeinae » Acritini » Aeletes » subgenus Aeletes (Aeletes subgenus Aeletes) » Aeletes simplex
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Histerid - Aeletes simplex
Copyright © 2008 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Histerid - Aeletes simplex
Abraham's Woods SNA, Green County, Wisconsin, USA
June 3, 2000
Size: .9mm
Collected in flight-intercept trap (25 May-3 June 2000) in hardwood forest.

All pics taken with automontage system. Actual montaging done with CombineZM.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 1 November, 2008 - 8:10pm

very nice,
and a brown clown too! I still can't believe how you can position these tiny beetles so well.
… Tim Moyer, 2 November, 2008 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

 
practice, practice, practice
Thanks Tim.

My interests these days lie mostly in the very small to minute range. So I end up pointing 80-90% of the insects I curate. You just need a relatively fresh specimen, a good set of tools and practice. Oh, and a relatively steady hand to use the minuten tool to tease out the antennae and legs once the specimen is mounted. All this work is done through the scope of course.
… Jeff Gruber, 3 November, 2008 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

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