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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellini » Paramordellaria » Paramordellaria triloba
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Tumbling Flower Beetle - Paramordellaria triloba
Copyright © 2011 Ilona L.

Tumbling Flower Beetle - Paramordellaria triloba
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 10, 2011
Glipa oculata?

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Tumbling Flower Beetle - Paramordellaria triloba Tumbling Flower Beetle - Paramordellaria triloba
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 6 December, 2011 - 7:22pm
Last updated 6 December, 2011 - 10:12pm

Moved
Moved from Tumbling Flower Beetles.
… Ilona L., 6 December, 2011 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

hmm... how about Paramordellaria triloba?
hope Tim can tell; i can't
… v belov, 6 December, 2011 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Your ID looks much better tha
Your ID looks much better than my guess.
… Ilona L., 6 December, 2011 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
all in the name
while they both can have the basal "eye spots", this is certainly triloba, because it has 3 "lobes" or bands (counting the eye spots as one band), while oculata only has two. In fact, I just noticed this post (which I'll comment on momentarily), that shows both species in the same frame. See, now you can tell them apart too! :)
… Tim Moyer, 6 December, 2011 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

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