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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

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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 - 8:32am
Last updated 18 June, 2009 - 6:57pm

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

I do believe I can count 9 an
I do believe I can count 9 antennomeres in this image(the very short 2nd is new to me)! Up 'til now I saw only 8.
… Richard Lareau, 3 April, 2007 - 5:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Richard,
that's quite a neat looking beetle you found. I'm delighted that I was able to see it and get some shots of the live animal. Thanks for sending it out this way, and maybe there'll be a beetle species named Lareauii.
… tom murray, 3 April, 2007 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Naming
If I had my way it would become O. samarae!! My Russian Wolfhound Samara(best dog I've ever owned); who comes with me on all my collecting forays actually began to chase a chipmunk in that direction and when she dissappeared into the heavy brush I went in after her only to find the downed tree. So if not for her, I might not have found the tree at all.
But I do suspect I would have found the spp eventually; it seems really common in the hard Polypores here: I have found no other spp.
… Richard Lareau, 5 April, 2007 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

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