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Pink pupa (?) - Rhyzobius? - Rhyzobius lophanthae
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Pink pupa (?) - Rhyzobius? - Rhyzobius lophanthae
Noe Valley, San Francisco County, California, USA
June 30, 2018
Size: ca 2 mm
There were a couple of these pink pupae (?) on the wall of a building, closely associated with several adult Rhyzobius lophanthae. They don't look like the larvae we have in the guide - maybe something else entirely?

See here for the same type of pupa, collected and identified after hatching an adult beetle:

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Pink pupa (?) - Rhyzobius? - Rhyzobius lophanthae Pink pupa (?) - Rhyzobius? - Rhyzobius lophanthae
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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 30 June, 2018 - 10:21pm
Last updated 9 July, 2018 - 9:36pm

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