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Tiny bristle-antennaed beetle - Ptenidium
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

Tiny bristle-antennaed beetle - Ptenidium
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
July 18, 2006
Size: 0.7 - 0.8 mm
This tiny beetle was among a batch of small stuff I sucked up with my aspirator that came to my mercury vapor light on a hot humid night. With its sparse long setae and hairy antennae it doesn't seem to resemble any beetle I've previously photographed.

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Tiny bristle-antennaed beetle - Ptenidium Tiny bristle-antennaed beetle - Ptenidium
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 August, 2006 - 10:55am
Last updated 30 August, 2006 - 8:59pm

Moved
Moved from Featherwinged Beetles.

Well, I didn't puzzle it out. Instead I contaced Gene Hall, who wrote the section on this family in American Beetles. He gave me the genus name :-)
… Jim McClarin, 30 August, 2006 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

Ptiliidae
One of the other genera - you can probably puzzle it out by looking at the figures in the ptiliiid chapter of "American Beetles".
… Donald S. Chandler, 5 August, 2006 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Don.
I didn't have room in my luggage for American Beetles, so I'll look and see when I get back from New Mexico.
… Jim McClarin, 5 August, 2006 - 6:58pm login or register to post comments

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