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Photo#49154
2.1mm unknown family - Philothermus glabriculus

2.1mm unknown family - Philothermus glabriculus
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
April 23, 2006
Size: 2.1 mm
I spotted this small red-brown beetle with clubbed antennae, striated elytra and pronotal perforations while breaking apart some moist, flakey wood pieces in a rearing container for longhorned beetle larvae (probably Par*andra) that came from a large maple toppled in the high winds of Feb. 16, . Besides wood chunks, the container also held some of the frass-filled woodrot that I collected from an Osmo*derma chamber in the same tree, so this beetle could have been living in the maple wood or in the frass/woodrot.

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2.1mm unknown family - Philothermus glabriculus 2.1mm unknown family - Philothermus glabriculus 2.1mm unknown family - Philothermus glabriculus 2.1mm unknown family - Philothermus glabriculus

Cerylonidae: Philothermus glabriculus
The only Philothermus around here.

 
Thank you, Don.
I just saw that you changed your mind on the first one I posted :-)

 
??
Same as this? It just looks different - maybe I'm seeing what I want to see; generally stouter and pronotum with lateral edges flared. I could be living in a fool's paranoid though.

 
This one is correct
Thanks Philip - I changed the other one to a Cerylon sp. This one is a Philothermus.

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