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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Featherwing[ed] Beetles (Ptiliidae) » Ptiliinae » Ptiliini » Micridium
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Micridium sp. - Micridium
Copyright © 2008 Rick Buss

Micridium sp. - Micridium
Sandia Mnts, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
January 13, 2008
Size: 0.6 mm
These are quite common in mixed Gambels oak/ponderosa pine detritus in the mountains.
They cleanly key to Micridium in American Beetles. Hall says there is only M lineatum described so far and D&A says this is not lineatum. So it is probably another of the undescribed species Hall mentions.

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Contributed by Rick Buss on 6 February, 2008 - 9:34am
Last updated 7 November, 2008 - 8:09pm

Moved
Moved from Featherwinged Beetles.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 7 November, 2008 - 8:09pm login or register to post comments

Very inspiring
Nice set of detailed images of these tiny feather-winged beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 6 February, 2008 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

 
trying
Thanks. I'm trying to improve my technique by studying what others are doing. My lighting is still problematic.
… Rick Buss, 6 February, 2008 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

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