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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Handsome Fungus Beetles (Endomychidae) » Endomychinae » Endomychus » Endomychus limbatus
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Endomychus sp.? - Endomychus limbatus
Copyright © 2008 Dennis Haines

Endomychus sp.? - Endomychus limbatus
Roger's Camp, Tulare County, California, USA
May 23, 1982
Size: ca. 4 mm
Endomychidae

This species was also on the same fallen Sequoia limbs.
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Contributed by Dennis Haines on 4 January, 2008 - 9:33pm
Last updated 17 July, 2011 - 5:32pm

must be E. limbatus (Horn) -- the only Cal. member of the genus
...also shown here

Moved from Endomychus.
… v belov, 27 October, 2009 - 7:49am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mycetina.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 7 January, 2008 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

Really sure about genus?
Looks more like Endo*mychus 2-guttatus to me.
… Boris Büche, 6 January, 2008 - 5:37am login or register to post comments

 
Endomychus sp.
You're right Boris. It lacks the explanate margin to the elytra that you see in My*cetina. So I got two different endomychids crawling around on fallen Giant Sequoia branches on the same date! I'm not sure about it being E. bi*guttatus. The only specimens I have are from the east coast and the position and size of the spots seems a little different on these western ones.
… Dennis Haines, 7 January, 2008 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

 
Nearctica . . .
lists but one sp. in the genus!
… Boris Büche, 8 January, 2008 - 4:00am login or register to post comments

 
Nearctica Nomina...
lists two species. Endomychus limbata was originally described as being in Mycetina by Horn in 1870. The Leng catalogue list it as Aphorista limbata (Horn) and as occuring in California. It gives the known distribution (1920-38) for E. biguttatus as being the east coast.
… Dennis Haines, 8 January, 2008 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

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