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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Ernobiinae » Ernobiini » Ernobius
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Mating small brown beetles - Ernobius - male - female
Copyright © 2013 Yurika Alexander

Mating small brown beetles - Ernobius - Male Female
Atco, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
July 26, 2013
Size: Larger one 4mm?
Sorry, sun was too bright... Found mating on black cherry leaf.
Anobiinae?

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Mating small brown beetles - Ernobius - male - female Mating small brown beetles - Ernobius - male - female
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Contributed by Yurika Alexander on 26 July, 2013 - 7:12pm
Last updated 10 August, 2013 - 3:40pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 10 August, 2013 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

looks cool and mysterious; Anobiinae is a great guess...
...but the pic is simply tantalizing and i'm unable to confirm :/
please please please keep an eye out for them.
remind me of Ernobius, but where are their bloody antennae?

Melandryidae & allies [Tetratomidae] is another remot-ish possibility, although the body is a bit too parallel-sided for those
… v belov, 10 August, 2013 - 1:59am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks v :)
I added a bad, but lateralish image. Please take a look at!
… Yurika Alexander, 10 August, 2013 - 9:54am login or register to post comments

 
ha!
lateralish is good: proves they are [al]most certainly Ernobius indeed.
which means i can sleep like a baby. forthwith.
… v belov, 10 August, 2013 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

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