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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » May Beetles and Junebugs (Melolonthinae) » Hopliini » Monkey Beetles (Hoplia) » Dark Hoplia (Hoplia trivialis)
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Hoplia trivialis? - Hoplia trivialis
Copyright © 2012 Jim McClarin

Hoplia trivialis? - Hoplia trivialis
Loudon, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
May 7, 2012
Size: est. 8mm
Landed on some boards I was cutting outdoors. My guess is it careened into the house and fell in my work area. (I've noticed many beetles seem to mistake a light-colored house wall for open space.) As soon as I got it under magnification I was pretty sure of the genus. To me it looks like H. trivialis but I'll let the scarab guys decide. If so, this would be new in Bug Guide for New Hampshire.

This image is a composite of three photos. The beetle was obligingly motionless for a time so I got a selection of focal-plane shots of the dorsum through my 65mm lens.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 8 May, 2012 - 1:27pm
Last updated 1 June, 2012 - 6:34am

Moved
Moved from Monkey Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 1 June, 2012 - 6:34am login or register to post comments

Definitely Hoplia sp.
Moved from Beetles. Not sure of species off-hand.
… Brad Barnd, 8 May, 2012 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Brad.
I had meant to place it in Hoplia and was surprised to find I'd left it in Coleoptera.
… Jim McClarin, 9 May, 2012 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

 
This is H. trivialis
I'll let you move so you don't get spammed with email. :)
… Brad Barnd, 1 June, 2012 - 12:40am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Brad,
although I'm too dense to get the part about getting spammed.
… Jim McClarin, 1 June, 2012 - 6:36am login or register to post comments

 
Np
If I had moved them all you would have gotten 10 extra email notifications, thus you would have gotten email spammed.
… Brad Barnd, 1 June, 2012 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Ok, I never thought about it much
but you're right. However I typically just open one of the messages with identical subject lines and delete the rest without opening. IOW, it's not been a problem.

I've been creating my own taxonomic tree for world Coleoptera down to genus. Just did Melonthinae last night. (Melonthini worldwide is HUGE!) These are in the form of image folders but course on my budget there are plenty I'll never get a chance to collect and photograph (Africa, Asia, Australia, etc.). I just like to see where my finds fit into the big picture.
… Jim McClarin, 1 June, 2012 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

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