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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Shining Leaf Chafers (Rutelinae) » Anomalini » Strigoderma » Pygmy Chafer (Strigoderma pygmaea)
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Small black beetle on Fogfruit - Strigoderma pygmaea
Copyright © 2018 Cynthia Abbott

Small black beetle on Fogfruit - Strigoderma pygmaea
Ft. Walton Beach, Okaloosa County, Florida, USA
August 16, 2018
This small (about 1 cm) black beetle was on turkey tangle fogfruit, Phyla nodiflora.

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Contributed by Cynthia Abbott on 18 August, 2018 - 12:10pm
Last updated 16 November, 2022 - 12:38pm

Moved
Moved from Strigoderma.
… Tyler Hedlund, 16 November, 2022 - 12:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scarab Beetles.
… Tyler Hedlund, 27 May, 2019 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Bruce Tilden, 15 October, 2018 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

Pygmy Chafer?
… Yurika Alexander, 18 August, 2018 - 4:19pm login or register to post comments

 
I think so; the genus is correct at least
… Blaine Mathison, 19 August, 2018 - 9:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank You
Thank you both for your help with this identification.
… Cynthia Abbott, 20 August, 2018 - 2:29pm login or register to post comments

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