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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Dasytinae » Dasytini » Dasytes » Dasytes plumbeus
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Beetle family ID - Dasytes plumbeus
Copyright © 2017 chandaiman69

Beetle family ID - Dasytes plumbeus
Richmond, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 1, 2017
Size: 4~5mm
Just want to find out which family does it belong to.
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Contributed by chandaiman69 on 1 August, 2017 - 4:06pm
Last updated 6 September, 2017 - 9:29pm

Moved
Moved from Dolichosoma foveicolle.
… v belov, 6 September, 2017 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Dasytinae.
… v belov, 1 August, 2017 - 4:19pm login or register to post comments

Probably Dolichosoma foveicolle...
...but the image isn't quite crisp enough. Relatively large size makes sense for that species.

Was the habitat marshy?
… Matthew L. Gimmel, 1 August, 2017 - 4:18pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks, Matt
that was my first instinct, too
… v belov, 1 August, 2017 - 4:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 1 August, 2017 - 4:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks all, actually I didn't
Thanks all, actually I didn't notice the beetle when I took the shot. It is cropped to pixel size. The location is on the edge of a pond in a park.
… chandaiman69, 1 August, 2017 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Pond edge
This is further corroboration of the ID. Dolichosoma foveicolle is unique (as far as I know) among NA dasytines in being partial to wet areas.
… Matthew L. Gimmel, 1 August, 2017 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Update
Giving this a second look, I'm now leaning towards this being an introduced Dasytes, probably D. plumbeus.
… Matthew L. Gimmel, 5 September, 2017 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

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