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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellistenini » Mordellistena » Mordellistena cervicalis
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What am I, please? - Mordellistena cervicalis
Copyright © 2007 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

What am I, please? - Mordellistena cervicalis
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 29, 2007
Observed on blooms of Achillea millefolium.
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 29 May, 2007 - 8:05pm
Last updated 25 February, 2010 - 5:25pm

Moved
Moved from Tumbling Flower Beetles.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 29 May, 2007 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

Mordellidae. Tumbling flower
Mordellidae. Tumbling flower beetle.

For the future, try not to post more than 5 species a day, you're more likely to get ID's and others are as well
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 29 May, 2007 - 8:35pm login or register to post comments

 
If
only the insects emerged five species at a time!
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 29 May, 2007 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Please check past IDs more closely re: duplication
For instance, a couple of today's syrphids look very familiar. Also, I think you have the same fly three times today.
… Ron Hemberger, 29 May, 2007 - 9:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Please check past IDs more closely
For instance, a couple of today's syrphids look very familiar. Also, I think you have the same fly three times today.
… Ron Hemberger, 29 May, 2007 - 9:50pm login or register to post comments

 
ID this one
Good photo--these are tiny. Most of this family requires keying with the beetle in hand, but I believe the coloration on this one is distinctive--see one I saw recently in NC:
… Cotinis, 29 May, 2007 - 8:57pm login or register to post comments

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