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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Carpophilinae » Nitops » subgenus Urocarpolus (Nitops subgenus Urocarpolus) » Nitops pallipennis
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Might be Carpophilus sp. - Nitops pallipennis
Copyright © 2019 David Thornburg

Might be Carpophilus sp. - Nitops pallipennis
Cottonwood 34.688316. -112.051444 elevation 4060 ft., Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
May 24, 2019
Size: 3mm
Found in yellow prickly pear cactus flower.

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Might be Carpophilus sp. - Nitops pallipennis Might be Carpophilus sp. - Nitops pallipennis Might be Carpophilus sp. - Nitops pallipennis
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Contributed by David Thornburg on 24 May, 2019 - 5:07pm
Last updated 31 October, 2019 - 12:15am

Moved
Moved from Carpophilus.
… v belov, 31 October, 2019 - 12:15am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sap-feeding Beetles.
… v belov, 31 October, 2019 - 12:09am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Marc DiGirolomo, 16 June, 2019 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

Found the same
I just found exact same looking beetle at Cool Canyon, San Diego County, CA on May 24, 2019 (western edge of Colorado Desert). It was on the Sweetbush flower and there were some prickly pear cactus around as well. I thought the antennae are unique shape.
… Kojiro Shiraiwa, 27 May, 2019 - 1:39am login or register to post comments

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