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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Flower Beetles (Scraptiidae) » Anaspidinae » Pentariini » Pentaria » Pentaria trifasciata
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false flower beetle - Pentaria trifasciata
Copyright © 2018 Steve Scholnick

false flower beetle - Pentaria trifasciata
Brookside Gardens, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
July 5, 2018
Size: ~4mm from photo
Keys out to Pentaria trifasciata using Liljeblad’s key (1) to this genus. However, that key is quite old and places this family in Mordellidae so I’d appreciate confirmation/correction of the ID. Found on a flower
TIA

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 6 July, 2018 - 4:25pm
Last updated 6 July, 2018 - 11:11pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Steve Scholnick, 6 July, 2018 - 11:11pm login or register to post comments

Pentaria sp.; prob P. trifasciata as well
… Blaine Mathison, 6 July, 2018 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

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