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Tumbling Flower Beetle - Mordellistena

Tumbling Flower Beetle - Mordellistena
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 30, 2007
Size: 2.5-3mm

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Tumbling Flower Beetle - Mordellistena Tumbling Flower Beetle - Mordellistena

Does not match cervicalis
. . . only head is red, antennae too slender

Moved

Thanks Tim
This one has a little variation in the darkness of the pronotum.

Mordellistena cervicalis
probably Mordellistena cervicalis - very common (the genus is certain based on metatibia ridges - great images! :) See comments under

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