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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Cucujid series » Shining Flower Beetles (Phalacridae) » Stilbus-group » Stilbus » Stilbus apicalis
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Shining Flower Beetle - Stilbus apicalis
Copyright © 2011 Richard Migneault

Shining Flower Beetle - Stilbus apicalis
Edmundston, Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada
June 4, 2011
Size: 1,8mm
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Contributed by Richard Migneault on 26 December, 2011 - 9:51am
Last updated 24 January, 2013 - 3:13pm

Moved
Moved from Stilbus.
… v belov, 24 January, 2013 - 3:13pm login or register to post comments

Stilbus apicalis (Melsheimer)
This is Stilbus apicalis (Melsheimer). See the following paper for more information:
Majka, C.G., Gimmel, M.L., and Langor, D. 2008. The Phalacridae of Canada: new records, distribution, and bionomics with a particular focus on the Atlantic Canadian fauna. In: Majka C.G., Klimaszewski J. (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera. ZooKeys 2: 209-220.
… Christopher Majka, 24 January, 2013 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Shining Flower Beetles.
… Richard Migneault, 26 December, 2011 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

Stilbus sp.
Note single stria and multiple long prosternal setae.
… Matthew L. Gimmel, 26 December, 2011 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

unrelated to any aquatic beetles...
use(1) to ID

Moved from Hydrophilinae.
… v belov, 26 December, 2011 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the reference, but
Thanks for the reference, but very difficult for me to differenciate,
easier for me to photograph..
… Richard Migneault, 26 December, 2011 - 5:00pm login or register to post comments

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