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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Cleroidea) » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Tarsosteninae » Tarsostenus » Tarsostenus univittatus
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Miniature Clerid - Tarsostenus univittatus
Copyright © 2018 James Bailey

Miniature Clerid - Tarsostenus univittatus
Augustine Staging Area, Orange County, California, USA
August 17, 2018
Size: ~3mm
Completely dwarfed by Cymatodera cf. californica that was on the other side of the sheet.
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Contributed by James Bailey on 18 August, 2018 - 1:24pm
Last updated 19 August, 2018 - 8:29am

Thanks both!
Interesting how we seem to get a good assortment of foreign species here. It is fairly isolated from nearby cities and towns. But it is a staging area so a lot of material is brought in and out.

PS. which one of you is it that always crops my photos completely? Is there some benefit to doing that? It doesn't show any more detail than it did with the square crop.
… James Bailey, 19 August, 2018 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

 
i regularly crop posted images
benefits: [1] users with regular accounts can see more detail (they are unable to access fill-size images); [2] cropped pics look much better on thumbnails; and [3] uncropped images won't be referred to third-party experts who have no BG accounts
… v belov, 19 August, 2018 - 3:10pm login or register to post comments

 
I never crop...
if I feel it should be done, I leave a comment for the contributor to crop their own.

But I agree with Vasili's recommendations on why it should be done.
… Blaine Mathison, 20 August, 2018 - 2:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Cropping (2 of 2)
If I cropped this to a rectangle around the bug, there would be no change in detail because the height limit is already filled entirely by the bug.

… James Bailey, 20 August, 2018 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Cropping (1 of 2)
But is the "complete crop" better than a square crop?
Same amount of detail is shown, in both thumbnail and main image. The only difference is that the full crop tends to create issues when linking the thumbnails, due to different size ratios. Example this image is now very tall and bumps the text in this message way down:
… James Bailey, 20 August, 2018 - 2:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Checkered Beetles.
… v belov, 19 August, 2018 - 8:18am login or register to post comments

 
that was my first thought too
but...just...didn't...look...right....
… Blaine Mathison, 19 August, 2018 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

 
show it around
i'll check the collection later
… v belov, 19 August, 2018 - 8:27am login or register to post comments

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