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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellistenini » Mordellistena

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Copyright © 2005 Jim McClarin

blond mordelid - Mordellistena

Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
July 11, 2005

First and only blond tumbling flower beetle I've seen.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 29 October, 2005 - 6:53pm
Last updated 18 March, 2010 - 2:10am

Moved

Moved from Tumbling Flower Beetles.

… v belov, 18 March, 2010 - 2:10am

look at Mordellistena arida LeConte, 1862

here (NB: not an ID)

… v belov, 27 January, 2009 - 3:10pm

Thanks

I didn't know about the importance of tibial ridges at the time, or size either apparently :-[
I have since seen a number of blond mordelids.

… Jim McClarin, 27 January, 2009 - 5:00pm

unfortunately,

w/o ridge counts, there's a least several other candidates. M. lutea Melsheimer (type should be at MCZ but Liljeblad could not find it) is a smaller version of M. arida. And check out M. tosta LeConte from the MCZ if you like. The elongated form seems to better match Jim's image (but it could just be orientation perspective).

… Tim Moyer, 11 March, 2009 - 2:39pm

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