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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Dasytinae » Listrini » Listrus
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beetle - Listrus
Copyright © 2005 Joyce Gross

beetle - Listrus
Morgan Territory Regional Park, Livermore, Contra Costa County, California, USA
April 16, 2005
Size: < 5mm
Melyridae?
Looks a lot like this Melyridae on this page at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 5 November, 2005 - 3:33pm
Last updated 2 August, 2006 - 12:21am

Listrus motschulskii
Check here from Harvard data base.
… Adalbert Goertz, 14 December, 2006 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

Amecocerus sp.
Based on Essig melyrid specimens, this seems to be Amecocerus sp.. There are two species at Essig that looked the same to me and were collected in my area, Amecocerus canescens and Amecocerus motschulskii. There were a couple of other Amecocerus species from elsewhere in California that looked the same too.

Also see White (1) page 213 for a drawing of Amecocerus sp..
… Joyce Gross, 19 November, 2005 - 3:04am login or register to post comments

found this comment
from Douglas Yanega here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/9501
Melyridae seems likely.
… Joyce Gross, 7 November, 2005 - 3:29am login or register to post comments

 
Amecocerus sp.
Joyce, Am looking at speciemns in the Texas A&M Coll. labeled "Amecocerus sp." that match your images. Am moving... (P.S. Great shots!!!)

Texas Beetle Info
TexasEnto.net/beetles.htm
… Mike Quinn, 13 January, 2006 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks Mike
for moving the images.
… Joyce Gross, 13 January, 2006 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

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