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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Ant-like Stone Beetles (Scydmaeninae) » Eutheiini » Veraphis
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Minute beetle, dorsal - Veraphis
Copyright © 2012 Edward L. Ruden

Minute beetle, dorsal - Veraphis
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
September 30, 2012
Size: 1.07 mm
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I collected this mite on Tree Spring Trl. 281, 9200 ft, Sandia Crest 7.5’ quadrangle in the Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo Co, NM from a Berlese funnel loaded with forest floor detritus collected from under and around a rotting log in a conifer forest.

I was unable to identify this beetle, even to family. Any help is appreciated. Its most distinguishing feature is its very small size (~1 mm).

This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 184 images with a 2.7 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 20X/0.42 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 135 mm F2.8 AIS telephoto lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 13.5×; technique described here).

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 22 November, 2012 - 11:21am
Last updated 7 December, 2016 - 10:37pm

Moved tentatively; will seek confirmation
nice job... as always

Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 22 November, 2012 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I see now Rick Buss has posted one too in this genus from the same area and habitat. It's the spittin' image, so I'm sure the genus ID is correct.
… Edward L. Ruden, 22 November, 2012 - 11:52am login or register to post comments

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