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flower visiting darkling beetle - Metapoloba pruinosa
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

flower visiting darkling beetle - Metapoloba pruinosa
base of Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
August 11, 2006
Size: about 10 mm
Collected by beating blooming Fallugia paradoxa ("Apache Plume") brush into net. Originally IDed incorrectly by comparing to bugguide images for this Both*rotes.

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flower visiting darkling beetle - Metapoloba pruinosa flower visiting darkling beetle - Metapoloba pruinosa flower visiting darkling beetle - Metapoloba pruinosa flower visiting darkling beetle - Metapoloba pruinosa
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 18 September, 2006 - 6:03pm
Last updated 25 September, 2007 - 5:55pm

Moved
Moved from Bothrotes.
… Kojun Kanda, 25 September, 2007 - 5:45pm login or register to post comments

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