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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Malachiinae » Malachiini » Attalina » Tanaops » Tanaops longiceps
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Unkown Beetles - Tanaops longiceps
Copyright © 2007 Brighid Gale

Unkown Beetles - Tanaops longiceps
Mission Trails Park, San Diego County, California, USA
June 17, 2007
Size: 5 to 6 mm
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Contributed by Brighid Gale on 19 June, 2007 - 6:51am
Last updated 19 April, 2010 - 1:34pm

Moved
Moved from Soft-winged Flower Beetles.
… v belov, 19 April, 2010 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

Unknown Beetles from Mission Trails Park.
This is a courting pair of Tanaops longiceps (LeConte). The male (bottom of photo) has pits in the 4th and 5th abdominal ventrites. The mouthparts of the female (top of photo) fit into the abdominal pits of the male during courtship. Periodically the male will quickly swivel around and attempt to mate.
… Adriean Mayor, 28 January, 2010 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Tanaops
Hello, please anybody could tell me if these Tanaops are also Tanaops longiceps? Thanks!
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1266938
… Isidro, 15 October, 2017 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Not Malachius
. . . but Melyridae (Malachiinae subfamily) is correct.
… Boris Büche, 20 June, 2007 - 4:15am login or register to post comments

Not sure, but...
...looks like Malachius, something I shot in south Orange County.
… Ron Hemberger, 19 June, 2007 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

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