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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 » Melanophthalma » subgenus Cortilena (Melanophthalma subgenus Cortilena) » Melanophthalma picta
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small beetle - Melanophthalma picta
Copyright © 2013 tom murray

small beetle - Melanophthalma picta
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
January 12, 2013
Size: 1.5mm
Found inside a tussock mound in a wetland.
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Contributed by tom murray on 12 January, 2013 - 9:35pm

Melanophthalma picta (LeConte)
ID confirmed from specimen, now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom.
… Brad Barnd, 26 November, 2013 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively; must be it
sorry about the confusion
Moved from Corticarina.
… v belov, 12 January, 2013 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Melanophthalma picta
This is a new species for me, so it's just as good.
… tom murray, 12 January, 2013 - 10:31pm login or register to post comments

 
...and definitely one that must make its way into the 2nd ed. of the New England guide!
… v belov, 12 January, 2013 - 10:34pm login or register to post comments

a more glamorous version of C. cavicollis?
Moved from Beetles.
beautiful specimen!
… v belov, 12 January, 2013 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Corticarina sp.
I thought it was a Latridiid, but I didn't see any that looked quite like this one.
… tom murray, 12 January, 2013 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

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