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Photo#1028185
spider beetle - Mezium affine

spider beetle - Mezium affine
Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, USA
December 22, 2014
Size: body length 3mm
Found in bathroom.

It is Mezium affine. Sometim
It is Mezium affine. Sometimes some erect elytral setae are on individuals.

The pic makes it look at first like it is covered with setae like a trigonogenius!

 
thanks again, Keith

Moved tentatively
Moved from Mezium.

cool thing... elytral vestiture looks out of place for a Mezium
i wonder if Trigonogenius or something along those lines might be a better match
will show around

 
looks like this to me: [url]h

 
sounds convincing

 
yes that was bugging me too...

Moved, just caked with debris?
Moved from ID Request.

 
debris
It was crawling along the baseboard that runs behind our claw-foot tub, a lot of dust behind it.

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