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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Minute Clubbed Beetles (Monotomidae) » Monotominae » Monotoma » Monotoma bicolor
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tiny beetle - Monotoma bicolor
Copyright © 2008 Gary McDonald

tiny beetle - Monotoma bicolor
Aromas, San Benito County, California, USA
January 31, 2008
Size: ~2-3mm
Another tiny beetle from the side of a large flower pot in our garden. (live oak/chaparral habitat).
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Contributed by Gary McDonald on 31 January, 2008 - 4:45pm
Last updated 17 February, 2011 - 7:55pm

parallela has been synonymized with bicolor
still, the ID is tentative

Moved from Monotoma parallela.
… v belov, 17 February, 2011 - 7:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Monotoma.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 16 November, 2008 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

Monotoma cf. parallela LeConte
*
… v belov, 16 November, 2008 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

Great find
Great find, we only just added one of these thanks to Jeff Gruber
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 31 January, 2008 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

Grain beetle?
It looks similar to the genus Oryzaephilus, but the pronotum isn't right...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/156504
Perhaps it's a Silvanid beetle?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/13072
… Jonas Insinga, 31 January, 2008 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Monotoma?
Short elytra and single antenna club segment.
… Rick Buss, 31 January, 2008 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, Monotomidae
It does look to be in the genus Monotoma.
… Dennis Haines, 31 January, 2008 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Dennis & Richard
for the genus ID.
… Gary McDonald, 2 February, 2008 - 12:35pm login or register to post comments

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