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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Staphyliniformia » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Crab-like Rove Beetles (Tachyporinae) » Tachyporini » Tachyporus » subgenus Tachyporus (Tachyporus subgenus Tachyporus) » Tachyporus lecontei
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Cilea silphoides? - Tachyporus lecontei
Copyright © 2007 Joe, Entomologist (in training)

Cilea silphoides? - Tachyporus lecontei
Ames, Story County, Iowa, USA
Size: 3-4 mm
I previously posted some poor shots of this guy... here's a nice live specimen from my rotting wood collection... if the ID looks good please make a page for it
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Contributed by Joe, Entomologist (in training) on 4 April, 2007 - 1:41am
Last updated 10 September, 2008 - 6:28am

Moved
Moved from Cilea silphoides following Adam´s ID.
… Boris Büche, 10 September, 2008 - 6:28am login or register to post comments

Hi everyone, I was browsi
Hi everyone,

I was browsing the guide and realized that both of our examples of Cil*ea are actually Tachyporus :(. Cilea is quite uncommonly collected in North America and all I have seen so far are very old specimens. This specimen shown here is Tachyporus lecontei, a very pretty and similar species. An easy way to tell this and Cil*ea apart is that T. lecontei has hairs all over its elytra and Cil*ea is virtually hairless (I think maybe it has microhairs) and is instead smooth and punctate. Also, for those of you lucky enough to have access to a better scope, Cil*ea has distinct microsculpture on its pronotum (tiny horizontal creases) and Tachyporus lecontei does not.

Adam
… Adam Brunke, 9 September, 2008 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tachyporinae.
… Boris Büche, 10 April, 2007 - 5:08am login or register to post comments

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