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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Byrrhoidea » Pill Beetles (Byrrhidae) » Syncalyptinae » Curimopsis » Curimopsis cooperi
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Curimopsis sp. - Curimopsis cooperi
Copyright © 2010 Dennis Haines

Curimopsis sp. - Curimopsis cooperi
Ash Mountain, 2800' elev., Tulare County, California, USA
April 9, 1983
Size: 2 mm
I couldn't stop until I got this little guy figured out. Its a Curimopsis in Byrrhidae. It uses its modified tibias to dig in the mud.

When I checked on it in the Wagner/Scott Collection I found specimens from the same locality labeled by Ralph Hopping as "Curimopsis n. sp." I wonder if anyone ever got around to describing it?

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Contributed by Dennis Haines on 13 April, 2010 - 6:46pm
Last updated 15 February, 2018 - 4:22pm

this is it!
Alexey Tishechkin has checked the Sta Barbara Mus. specimens upon my request

Moved from Curimopsis.
… v belov, 27 June, 2010 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Synonymised
Andreas Putz synonymized Sierraclava under Curimopsis in 2007.
… Dennis Haines, 4 November, 2019 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

what do you think about Sierraclava cooperi Johnson 1982?
… v belov, 27 June, 2010 - 12:58am login or register to post comments

 
It took 50 years for someone
It took 50 years for someone to describe this little cutie!
… Dennis Haines, 28 June, 2010 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

 
well, it's a rarity, and the group is rather obscure, too
but now the problem we have is putting pix on the evacuated Curimopsis page! do you have any decent spcmns of true Curi~?
… v belov, 28 June, 2010 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

 
I checked and sadly I do not.
I checked and sadly I do not.
… Dennis Haines, 28 June, 2010 - 10:05am login or register to post comments

 
ok, thanx again, Dennis.
Crystal said she'll be adding her excellent images on BG anyway
… v belov, 28 June, 2010 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 13 April, 2010 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

what a neat Curimopsis!
i'll show it to Pual Johnson -- maybe he'll say something about its status
… v belov, 13 April, 2010 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

 
I checked in the Leng Catalog
I checked in the Leng Catalog and all the species listed on Nearctica were known during Hopping's time.
… Dennis Haines, 13 April, 2010 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

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