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Boy was I wrong, wrong, wrong! - Thymalus marginicollis

Boy was I wrong, wrong, wrong! - Thymalus marginicollis
Hudson, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
March 4, 2006
Size: about 6.5 mm
This morning I saw that a couple imagos (adults) had emerged from pupae and I was a bit surprised. All this time I was confident I was rearing a batch of tenebri*onid beetles whose larvae I found in shelf fungi I collected in January. They were a completely different family, Trogossitidae, genus Thymalus. Obviously I knew less than I thought I knew about larvae. Of interest to me is that Thymalus lives in shelf fungi. I didn't know that.

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Moved
Moved from Thymalus.

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