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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellini » Yakuhananomia » Yakuhananomia bidentata
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Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) - Yakuhananomia bidentata
Copyright © 2007 Tom Bentley

Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) - Yakuhananomia bidentata
Bluff Spring Fen Nature Preserve, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 10, 2007
Size: 15mm
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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 11 June, 2007 - 7:29am
Last updated 11 July, 2007 - 7:05am

Moved
Moved from Tumbling Flower Beetles.
… Tom Bentley, 11 July, 2007 - 7:05am login or register to post comments

I think it looks rather different
. . . from Y.bidentata. Especially here the pronotum has a distinct hair pattern (similar to the Mordellid posted by J&J.Balaban), in Y.bid. it has not.
… Boris Büche, 12 June, 2007 - 4:36am login or register to post comments

 
Now my other one was moved to
Now my other one was moved to a species page. Same day different location. do these look that different. Just asking cause I am not good with these guys.
… Tom Bentley, 24 June, 2007 - 11:23pm login or register to post comments

 
good argument
your second one is somewhat intermediate between this one and the Y.bidentata already in the guide before. Think its safe to move, though . . .
… Boris Büche, 11 July, 2007 - 6:21am login or register to post comments

Wow! It looks so different
Buprestids always remind us of turtles with their heads pulled in. Any chance it could be something more like
… john and jane balaban, 11 June, 2007 - 10:06am login or register to post comments

 
J&J are right
This is a mordellid, not a buprestid. Neat species.
… Brad Barnd, 11 June, 2007 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
This looks like the Yakuhanan
This looks like the Yakuhananomia bidentata in the guide.
… Tom Bentley, 11 June, 2007 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

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