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Microlipus moerens
Photo#1047697
Copyright © 2015
Liz Watkinson
Unknown beetle -
Microlipus moerens
Savary Island, British Columbia, Canada
May 5, 2010
On Rubus ursinis petal
Contributed by
Liz Watkinson
on 18 March, 2015 - 4:49am
Last updated 17 August, 2020 - 4:30am
Moved tentatively
Moved from
Malachiini
.
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v belov
, 17 August, 2020 - 4:30am
hmmm... intriguing... reminds me of some European Charopus
...but that genus does not seem to occur in N. America
will revisit
please try to find more of those and take sharper pics so we have better evidence to work with
Moved from
ID Request
.
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v belov
, 18 March, 2015 - 1:08pm
Malachini
Malachius moerens ? colour
Spencer Entomological Collection, Beatty Biodiversity Museum,UBC
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Liz Watkinson
, 18 March, 2015 - 3:48pm
ha! you certainly have a point
thanks, Liz.
i can see the similarity but the habitus is still too elongate and elytra too long in those captured by your camera -- but they may be males (the one on the UBC photo is clearly a female)
typical
Malachius
look rather different, but the taxonomy of the nearctic melyrids is far from being settled and many spp. need to be moved to different genera from where they have been traditionally assigned
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v belov
, 18 March, 2015 - 4:35pm
Malachini
I'm a total novice. Are these different beetles specific to particular plant species or generalists?
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Liz Watkinson
, 18 March, 2015 - 6:53pm
not really herbivores
larvae are predators; adults are mixed feeders and will take all sorts of organic stuff, incl. live prey and pollen wherever available
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v belov
, 18 March, 2015 - 10:49pm