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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Carpophilinae » Carpophilus » subgenus Semocarpolus (Carpophilus subgenus Semocarpolus) » Carpophilus marginellus
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Carpophilus - Carpophilus marginellus
Copyright © 2011 Tim Moyer

Carpophilus - Carpophilus marginellus
Medford, (~25 miles east of Philadelphia, PA) Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
May 30, 2011
Size: 3.0mm
If I'm reading the key correctly, this one has the "oblique, raised line cutting of anterior angles of the metasternum"(1), seen on beetle's right side in venter image, leading to Carpophilus corticinus. Corrections welcome :)

on H2O melon

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Contributed by Tim Moyer on 8 July, 2011 - 2:33pm
Last updated 20 April, 2014 - 7:29pm

Moved
Moved from Carpophilus corticinus.
… v belov, 20 April, 2014 - 7:29pm login or register to post comments

looks more like marginellus to me
… v belov, 18 April, 2014 - 8:53am login or register to post comments

 
I agree
I think I see a large axillary space in the ventral shot, making it C. marginellus in this case.
… Gareth Powell, 20 April, 2014 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

 
tak.
… v belov, 20 April, 2014 - 7:29pm login or register to post comments

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