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tan ciid - Octotemnus laevis
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

tan ciid - Octotemnus laevis
Windham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Size: about 1.5 mm
Photographed Dec. 31, 2006. Collected by sifting fungus and moss samples gathered from wooded area Dec. 2, 2006.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 7 March, 2007 - 7:03pm
Last updated 8 March, 2007 - 3:48pm

Moved
Moved from Minute Tree-fungus Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 8 March, 2007 - 3:48pm login or register to post comments

If it was from Europe . . .
. . . I´d say: Octotemnus glabriculus.

Antennae seem to be 8-segmented, beetle is very small, laterally convex and has inconspicous (almost lacking) pubescence).

Check the antennae - if my eyes were right, you may fix it as O.laevis Casey (no other species in N-Am according to nearctica).

cheers, Boris
… Boris Büche, 8 March, 2007 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

 
I count 8 antennomeres also.
For me, this image gave the clearest view of antennomeres. American Beetles says O. laevis and O. glabriculus may be the same species. I'll move it to species page.
… Jim McClarin, 8 March, 2007 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

 
no surprise . . .
that American Beetles says so. Casey, who described laevis, was a well-known producer of synonyms.
O.glabriculus in Europe is probably the most common and most wide-spread Ciid, and to assume a holarctic distribution is sound.
… Boris Büche, 9 March, 2007 - 4:56am login or register to post comments

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