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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Buprestoidea » Metallic Wood-boring Beetles (Buprestidae) » Buprestinae » Melanophilini » Melanophila » Melanophila notata
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rust-spotted beetle - Melanophila notata
Copyright © 2007 Robin McLeod

rust-spotted beetle - Melanophila notata
Everglades City, Collier County, Florida, USA
March 23, 2007
Size: 10-12 mm
Apparently a more typical (spotted) individual but otherwise similar to this one found on the same night in the same town on a nearby building.
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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 16 May, 2007 - 11:37pm
Last updated 9 June, 2016 - 12:49pm

Fires nearby?
The beetles in this genus tend to appear in numbers at forest fires, so I'm wondering if there is a blaze going on nearby.
… Eric R. Eaton, 17 May, 2007 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

 
I don't recall any that night
but there may have been a small fire nearby.

Below is an interesting quote from this PDF doc that mentions another possible source of attraction in addition to forest fires...

"Linsley observed both M. consputa and M. acuminata swarming at football games in Berkeley, California, and speculated that they may have been attracted to the smoke from approximately 20,000 cigarettes (Linsley, 1943)."
… Robin McLeod, 17 May, 2007 - 11:50pm login or register to post comments

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