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Black Pollen Beetle (Fabogethes nigrescens)
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Copyright © 2006
Tim Moyer
Ptiliidae -
Fabogethes nigrescens
Medford, (~15 miles east of Philadelphia, PA) Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
August 26, 2006
Size: ~1.8mm
came to UV light trap
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Contributed by
Tim Moyer
on 17 October, 2006 - 11:02am
Last updated 15 June, 2012 - 3:37pm
Fabogethes nigrescens --det. A.R. Cline
Moved from
Brassicogethes
.
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v belov
, 15 June, 2012 - 3:37pm
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do you still have it? mind reshooting?
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v belov
, 23 January, 2011 - 9:15pm
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look around
should have it - I'll look around. This was imaged when I was still pointing a camera through the eyepieces of my steroscope (yuck!). I should be able to be considerably better these days.
And I think I get these fairly regularly on flowers incl. wild mustard, so should be easy to find some more come early spring.
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Tim Moyer
, 23 January, 2011 - 10:37pm
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great
by far the most important feature is the outer armature/denticulation and overall shape of the foretibiae; the texture of the dorsum, pronotal side margins & the general body outline also help a lot
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v belov
, 23 January, 2011 - 10:47pm
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Moved
Moved from
Acrotrichis
.
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Tim Moyer
, 24 April, 2007 - 11:43am
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Definitely not Ptiliidae.
Definitely not Ptiliidae.
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Gene Hall
, 30 June, 2010 - 4:40pm
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Sorry, that´s wrong!
I´d say, it is Meligethes sp. in Nitidulidae.
Ptilliids never have enlarged tibiae and antennae with a round club.
:-)
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Boris Büche
, 2 April, 2007 - 5:00am
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Ptiliidae: Acrotrichis sp.
Our largest ptiliids.
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Donald S. Chandler
, 17 October, 2006 - 6:22pm
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Thanks Don,
If this is the biggest, I don't know what I'd do with the "merely average" or smaller ones. What type of equipment and magnification do you use if you want to key these size beetles? I've got a stereo macroscope with 10x/20x which I'm pleased with for larger subjects, and some 20x eyepieces which get me to 40x, but not at the sharpness I'd desire (though perhaps a good cleaning would help too)
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Tim Moyer
, 17 October, 2006 - 9:34pm
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