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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Minute Tree-fungus Beetles (Ciidae) » Ciinae » Orophiini » Octotemnus » undescribed sp. adventitious to North America (Octotemnus undescribed sp. adventitious to North America)
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One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - Male
Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA
March 17, 2007
Size: about 2.3mm
Jim McClarin invited me over to take a few shots of this unique Ciid to see if I could get any pictures that show more detail.

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One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male One of Richard's mandibular-horned minute fungus beetles - Octotemnus - male
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Contributed by tom murray on 3 April, 2007 - 8:30am
Last updated 17 March, 2023 - 3:43pm

Moved
Moved from Octotemnus.
… Mike Quinn, 18 June, 2009 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Minute Tree-fungus Beetles.
… Richard Lareau, 7 April, 2007 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

Real nice images Tom. I'm env
Real nice images Tom. I'm envious.
… Richard Lareau, 3 April, 2007 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

 
I couldn't have gotten these
without you finding the beetle then sending it to Jim.
And your pictures are very good too.
… tom murray, 3 April, 2007 - 6:08pm login or register to post comments

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