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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Featherwing[ed] Beetles (Ptiliidae) » Ptiliinae » Ptinellini » Ptinella
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Unknown beetle - Ptinella
Copyright © 2018 Susan Leach Snyder

Unknown beetle - Ptinella
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
December 29, 2014
Size: ~.9 mm
This beetle was living in pine needles below a Florida Slash pine tree. It is flattened with a long abdomen .

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Unknown beetle - Ptinella Unknown bark Louse - Ptinella Unknown beetle - Ptinella
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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 16 March, 2018 - 2:11pm
Last updated 16 September, 2018 - 11:24am

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Jonathan W. Quist, 16 September, 2018 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

 
Thank
you so much for confirming the genus ID made earlier by Curt Harden. I'm so glad you two were able to ID the specimen from these photographs.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 17 September, 2018 - 9:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Since everyone seems to agree that it's a beetle, might as well move it here.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 16 March, 2018 - 5:43pm login or register to post comments

looks like a beetle to me
Far as I can go.
… Diane Young, 16 March, 2018 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Ptinella, maybe?
… Curt Harden, 16 March, 2018 - 5:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Barklice, Booklice, and Parasitic Lice.

Barklice don't have antennae that resemble this critter's.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 16 March, 2018 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

 
I am
so sorry. I was totally confused. Of course you are correct that this is not a bark louse. I am having chemo and I have chemo brain… cognitive brain issues. In looking at other arthropods identified by BugGuide.net, I think this is Order Coleoptera and perhaps Family Smicripidae. Although this individual is half the size of another beetle identified earlier as Smicrips sp. (Palmetto Beetle), it is similar looking. See images below of a 2 mm long Smicrips sp.:

… Susan Leach Snyder, 16 March, 2018 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

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