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soft-winged flower beetle - Collops tricolor - female
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

soft-winged flower beetle - Collops tricolor - Female
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 5, 2004
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Contributed by tom murray on 7 April, 2005 - 9:47pm
Last updated 23 February, 2018 - 10:25pm

Moved
Moved from Black-headed Melyrid.
Adriean thanks for getting this and all the other Melyrids identified!
… tom murray, 28 January, 2010 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

Identification of C. nigriceps vs. C. tricolor.
This is a female of Collops tricolor (Say). See comments on other photos.
… Adriean Mayor, 28 January, 2010 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

Collops nigriceps
Det. per EGRiley:

Collops nigriceps (Say)

Family Melyridae, Subfamily Malachiinae

Mike Quinn, Austin

Texas Beetle Info
http://www.TexasEnto.net/beetles.htm
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