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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Pollen Beetles (Meligethinae) » Brassicogethes » Brassicogethes simplipes
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Sap beetle - Brassicogethes simplipes
Copyright © 2007 Brad Barnd

Sap beetle - Brassicogethes simplipes
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
March 25, 2007
Size: 2 to 2.5 mm
Meligethes simplipes. Very common small sap beetle (Nitidulidae) in the spring. These are all over flowers here, especially on the one in the accompanying photo. These guys hop around and I thought they were flea beetles until I looked at them under a scope.

The dorsum has a slight greenish metallic color, which distinguishes this species. I've collected these from March through early June in northern Indiana.

(Flower ID'd as "Looks like Cardamine douglassii" by John & Jane Balaban.)

(Updated photo 3.II.2011)
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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 30 March, 2007 - 9:18pm
Last updated 3 February, 2011 - 12:13am

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