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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Polypore Fungus Beetles (Tetratomidae) » Eustrophinae » Eustrophini » Synstrophus » Synstrophus repandus
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Tetratomidae, dorsal - Synstrophus repandus
Copyright © 2012 MJ Hatfield

Tetratomidae, dorsal - Synstrophus repandus
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 25, 2011
Size: 6 mm
Black light.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 21 January, 2012 - 11:42am
Last updated 12 January, 2013 - 9:06am

Moved
Moved from Eustrophinae.
… v belov, 21 January, 2012 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

nice.
Moved from Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles.
… v belov, 21 January, 2012 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

 
Another family
of which I've never been aware. Thanks.
… MJ Hatfield, 21 January, 2012 - 12:02pm login or register to post comments

 
they live on wood-destroying fungi
i'm sure you'll find other members of this family in your area. both Penthe spp. are rather common, large, quiet beetles; the Eustrophinae and Hallomenus are consummate jumpers and may be hard to catch (they often disappear before you've had a chance to notice them, esp. as you peel loose bark from a standing dead tree), but the smaller Pisenus humeralis is docile and may occur en masse in soft polypores (adults tend to be around late in the season, based on my observations here in NJ); same largely applies to the Tetratoma (you can expert a couple of pretty members of that genus in IA(1)(2))
… v belov, 21 January, 2012 - 1:07pm login or register to post comments

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