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Beetle - Diachus

Beetle - Diachus
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Size: 3mm
Odd little beetle

Moved
Moved from Cryptocephalini.

Moved
Moved from The Casebearers.

Could you provide a shot of t
Could you provide a shot of the undersurface and elytral apex? This specimen is very interesting looking and that would help key it out.

casebearing leafbeetle
subfamily Cryptocephalinae in leafbeetles. Tribe cryptocephalini
looks somewhat similar to this one from europe: http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/coleoptera/images/alter/crypt_pusill_1.jpg

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