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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Dasytinae » Dasytini » Eschatocrepis » Eschatocrepis constrictus

Species Eschatocrepis constrictus

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Bevy of Wee Beetles on Small Flowers #8 - Eschatocrepis constrictus - Eschatocrepis constrictus - male - female A farewell to arm - Eschatocrepis constrictus Melyridae: Listrini? - Eschatocrepis constrictus Beetle - Eschatocrepis constrictus Small dark elongate beetle - Eschatocrepis constrictus San Jose, CA beetle - Eschatocrepis constrictus Melyridae - Eschatocrepis constrictus Beetle on mustard plant flowers - Eschatocrepis constrictus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Melyridae (Soft-winged Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Dasytinae
Tribe Dasytini
Genus Eschatocrepis
Species constrictus (Eschatocrepis constrictus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dasytes constrictus
Explanation of Names
Eschatocrepis constrictus (LeConte 1852)
Identification
shape of pronotum diagnostic ―Adriean Mayor
Habitat
common on flowers in the early spring in CA & Baja ―Adriean Mayor
Print References
Howell C.D. (1985) Diverse populations and subspecies in Eschatocrepis (Coleoptera: Dasytidae). Ent. News 96: 129―141.
Contributed by Harsi S. Parker on 28 February, 2010 - 12:27pm
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, v belov
Last updated 29 August, 2023 - 6:16pm

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