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Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus

Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus
1.6 km south Banks, ID, 44.0685, -116.1198. , Boise County, Idaho, USA
June 19, 2009
Size: 6mm
Sweeping vegetation next to Payette River.

Golden recumbent hairs covering all of elytra and pronotum. Tarsi 5-5-4. Eyes emarginate. Pronotum with shallow mid-lateral basal depressions with indentations. Maxillary palps barrel shape, not triangular. Tibia with dorsal diagonal grooves with small dark thick setae. Procoxa widely open behind. Prosternal intercoxal process ends ventral to coxa and does not separate coxae. Tibial spurs simple and approximately equal length. Mesosternum anterior to mesocoxae with a ridge that fits between procoxae. Mesocoxal cavities open. Proepisternum showing the lack of a transverse suture

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Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus Family & genus? - Eustrophus tomentosus

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

guess
Eustrophopsis in Tetratomidae?
I'm not an expert on these, but the tibia and tarsi and overall appearance suggest it.

 
added pic
I replaced the view of the neck with a more relevant pic of the prothoracic episterna without a transverse suture. That helps confirm that it might be Eustrophus.

 
maybe
I looked at some of my Eustrophus (all from the east) and several of my Eustrophopsis (mostly from the west). In your photo I think the prothoracic episternal suture (present or absent) is hidden from view behind the profemur. The newer picture you show is of the mesothoracic episternum, but doesn't reveal the presence or absence of the suture on the prothorax. I think you may be right that this is Eustrophus, but you might want to verify that the prothorax does not have the suture behind the profemur. Other beetle people, Belov or Pollack could ID this at a glance I'm sure.

 
sorry, replace proepisterna plus another
Thanks for your time.
Sorry, replaced the incorrect pic for proepisternum, although it can be seen fairly well in another pic already there, this is better (had to relax leg & antenna & clean surface).

Also, I replaced one pic of the eye to include the closeup of the antenna. Info from the publication:Zookeys 188: 1-153, 2012: Review of the Eustrophinae (Coleoptera,Tetratomidae) of America north of Mexico by Darren A. Pollock1. The key points to Eustrophus tomentosus with the info about the sencilla on the antenna ("...annular antennal sensilla interrupted, not present around entire circumference of antennomeres").

Hope this helps nail it down. Thanks again.

 
Nice pic
Yes that photo is quite clear- no suture. You can just move it to the correct location yourself. I always move mine to the bugguide page as soon as I am certain.

 
move?
OK, I'll try. Tagging and moving them I haven't done before.

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