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Monotoma bicolor
Photo#167737
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
.
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v belov
, 17 February, 2011 - 7:55pm
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Moved
Moved from
Monotoma
.
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Will Chatfield-Taylor
, 16 November, 2008 - 6:35pm
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Monotoma cf. parallela LeConte
*
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v belov
, 16 November, 2008 - 10:45am
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Great find
Great find, we only just added one of these thanks to Jeff Gruber
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Will Chatfield-Taylor
, 31 January, 2008 - 9:47pm
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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
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Jonas Insinga
, 31 January, 2008 - 4:57pm
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Monotoma?
Short elytra and single antenna club segment.
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Rick Buss
, 31 January, 2008 - 5:58pm
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Yes, Monotomidae
It does look to be in the genus Monotoma.
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Dennis Haines
, 31 January, 2008 - 6:13pm
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Thank you Dennis & Richard
for the genus ID.
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Gary McDonald
, 2 February, 2008 - 12:35pm
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