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small beetle - Epuraea luteola
Copyright © 2012 john and jane balaban

small beetle - Epuraea luteola
Dirk Bayer's haven, Bon Secour, Baldwin County, Alabama, USA
July 27, 2012
Is this the same as Mike Quinn's Sphindus? If so, we'll just frass this. gathering_2012
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 August, 2012 - 8:34pm
Last updated 20 October, 2013 - 4:21pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 21 September, 2012 - 8:35am

Epuraea; wild guess, E. (Haptoncus) luteola --
...that is, if very small --which seems to be the case; nothing else, to my knowledge, has the eyes that big, and the pronotum (barely emarginate anteriorly) is consistent, too
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… v belov, 10 August, 2012 - 8:52pm

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