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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Cryptarchinae » Glischrochilus » subgenus Librodor (Glischrochilus subgenus Librodor) » Glischrochilus obtusus
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Glischrochilus obtusus
Copyright © 2006 Frank Guarnieri

Glischrochilus obtusus
7 km east of Paw Paw, 39.5224, -78.3641, Morgan County, West Virginia, USA
July 9, 1999
Size: 13 mm
Collected at ultra-violet light.
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Contributed by Frank Guarnieri on 1 April, 2006 - 5:47am
Last updated 21 February, 2024 - 5:55am

Glischrochilus obtusus
Moving to guide page.

I see there is already one in the quide but it's in tucked posture, so it's not readily recognizable as the same species. Also, there's no size data for it, which might have been a tip-off.
… Jim McClarin, 1 April, 2006 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

Sap feeding beetle?
I do not know what species this is but it is by far the biggest Nitidulid beetle that I have ever seen. With those mandibles I bet it doesn't just eat sap!
… Frank Guarnieri, 1 April, 2006 - 5:50am login or register to post comments

 
I'll ask an expert.
I haven't heard back from US specialist Andy Cline re my latest ID request. He could be out of the country. Alexander Kirejtshuk in Russia has IDed several nits for us.

We had some fungus-diseased ash trees taken out and their trunks are oozing sap that has attracted at least four species from this family. I placed some of the wedge sections on top of the level stump to form a sheltered space and that's where the nits congregate.
… Jim McClarin, 1 April, 2006 - 8:38am login or register to post comments

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