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Coleoptera--beetle triungulin

Coleoptera--beetle triungulin
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
March 24, 1997
Size: tiny
These two triungulun were seen on a Sweetbush flower that a Hesperapis bee was visiting. See # 341136. They are the free-living hypermetamorphic first-instar larvae of a few families of Coleoptera including Ripiphoridae and Meloidae. In this case we suspect a ripiphorid beetle, Ripiphorus rex, because we saw and photographed females of this species ovipositing on the flowers of this bush the previous week.

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