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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles (Latridiidae) » Corticariinae » Cortinicara » Cortinicara gibbosa
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Minute Brown Scavenger Beetle - Cortinicara gibbosa
Copyright © 2012 Richard Migneault

Minute Brown Scavenger Beetle - Cortinicara gibbosa
Edmundston, Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada
June 9, 2012
Size: 1,2mm
This is not a good photo, but the tiny size (1,2mm) and the form of the pronotum could be good indication for id.

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Contributed by Richard Migneault on 30 December, 2012 - 8:31am
Last updated 21 January, 2013 - 1:04pm

Moved tentatively; thanks, Chris.
Moved from Corticariinae.
… v belov, 21 January, 2013 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

Cortinicara gibbosa (Herbst) ?
Species of the Corticariinae are difficult (frequently impossible) to distinguish in photographs, but the transverse basal impression on the pronotum indicates that this specimen is either in the genus Cortinicara or Melanophthalma (s. str.). The small size and dark colouration means that this is very probably Cortinicara gibbosa (Herbst).
… Christopher Majka, 21 January, 2013 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Silken Fungus Beetles.
… v belov, 30 December, 2012 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

looks like Latridiidae
… Blaine Mathison, 30 December, 2012 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

 
indeed
i don't know of any cryptophagids of such habitus.
use(1) to figure out species
… v belov, 30 December, 2012 - 3:50pm login or register to post comments

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