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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Pollen Beetles (Meligethinae) » Fabogethes » Black Pollen Beetle (Fabogethes nigrescens)
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airplane beetle - Fabogethes nigrescens
Copyright © 2007 Joyce Gross

airplane beetle - Fabogethes nigrescens
on a United Airlines plane, Chicago O'Hare Airport, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 3, 2007
Size: 2mm
This was walking along the window next to my seat.
Derm*estid or something else?

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 24 July, 2007 - 4:10am
Last updated 1 May, 2009 - 9:25pm

Meligethes nigrescens Stephens 1830
Moved from Meligethes.
… v belov, 1 May, 2009 - 9:25pm login or register to post comments

something else: Nit
yours is a flower Nitidulid, genus Meligethes.
… Boris Büche, 24 July, 2007 - 4:18am login or register to post comments

 
nit
Thanks Boris -- that looks right. I wonder where the beetle came from (and if I should really put it in the guide, as I've just done). At least I don't think the plane (or beetle) came from another country. It may not have come from Chicago though.
… Joyce Gross, 24 July, 2007 - 4:24am login or register to post comments

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