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Featherwinged Beetle - Ptenidium

Featherwinged Beetle - Ptenidium
Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 9, 2007
Size: .8-1mm
Found on the underside of a piece of plywood on damp garden soil.

Moved

Moved
If this is the largest in the family, then I probably looked right past some of the "normal" sized ones:-)

Ptiliidae!
genus Ptenidium - about the largest representatives of the family.

:-)

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