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Tiny brown mushroom beetle - Scaphisoma rubens
Copyright © 2005 Jim McClarin

Tiny brown mushroom beetle - Scaphisoma rubens
Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
September 19, 2005
Size: about 2 mm (guess)
Found several of these beetles on a rotting non-finned mushroom (porous underside). Features are pointed abdomen that protrudes beyond elytra and very smooth, rounded, shiny head/pronotum/elytra. I think these pix are all of same individual.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 21 September, 2005 - 9:22pm
Last updated 13 October, 2006 - 6:53pm

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