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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Darkling Beetles (Melandryidae) » Melandryinae » Dircaeini » Dircaea » Dircaea liturata
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beetle - Dircaea liturata
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

beetle - Dircaea liturata
Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
June 23, 2007
Size: ~9mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 25 June, 2007 - 8:24am
Last updated 13 May, 2013 - 6:47am

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Moved from Beetles.
… tom murray, 25 June, 2007 - 4:14pm login or register to post comments

False Darkling Beetle: Dircaea liturata
Initially looked like a Click beetle, but I thought I remembered seeing this one somewhere (BugGuide, of course). And Jim's recent "non-click" from the pool taught me that Melandryidae have long first segment hind tarsi, which yours does also. Sure enough, there it was - .

Downie and Arnett list only one Dircaea for the northeast - Dircaea liturata (LeConte), so these can all be moved to a new species page.
… Tim Moyer, 25 June, 2007 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

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