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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles (Latridiidae) » Corticariinae » Melanophthalma » subgenus Melanophthalma (Melanophthalma subgenus Melanophthalma)
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Corticariinae? - Melanophthalma
Copyright © 2015 Gary Griswold

Corticariinae? - Melanophthalma
Enumclaw, King County, Washington, USA
July 3, 2015
Size: ~ 2 mm
Extracted from Lindgren funnel trap. Believe it's a Corticariinae of sorts? Confirmation/correction, further placement would be appreciated.

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Contributed by Gary Griswold on 3 July, 2015 - 7:11pm
Last updated 4 July, 2015 - 2:41pm

i wonder if the angulate pronotal sides will add up to an id
Moved from Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles.
… v belov, 4 July, 2015 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

 
Melanophthalma (M.) sp.
... is likely as far as this will go without dissection of a male. There are still many undescribed species in the group and they appear very similar based on external characters. The tarsomeres separate it from Cortinicara (1st not elongate, not extended to cover ventral side of the second in M.). Cheers!
… Charlene Wood, 10 July, 2015 - 7:20am login or register to post comments

 
edit note above
in regards to the tarsomeres- Cortinicara has the 2nd shorter than the 1st (not elongate... that's true of Corticarina!). Still confident in the ID.
… Charlene Wood, 12 July, 2015 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

 
thanks, Charlene
check out a new addition to the guide
… v belov, 10 July, 2015 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you V...
I was wondering that too, the pronotal sides kind of reminded me of:
… Gary Griswold, 4 July, 2015 - 2:23pm login or register to post comments

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