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Symphora - Anaspis
Copyright © 2019 Salvador Vitanza

Symphora - Anaspis
Hereford, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
April 28, 2019
Size: 2.5 mm
8920 S. Bryerly Ct.
Elevation: 1,500 m
This adds Arizona to the data map
Collected and determined by Steve Lingafelter

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 6 September, 2019 - 1:38pm
Last updated 13 July, 2020 - 12:55pm

Moved
Moved from False Flower Beetles.
… v belov, 13 July, 2020 - 12:55pm

Moved, this is a scraptiid (prob. Anaspis?)
Moved from Symphora.
… Blaine Mathison, 12 September, 2019 - 9:53am

 
Didn't see the neck!
Thanks for the correction. As the head was recessed, I didn't see the neck that is normally characteristic of Scraptiidae.
… Steven Lingafelter, 13 September, 2019 - 11:00am

 
also check out the elytral texture...
those transverse wrinkly grooves; very characteristic of anaspidines
… Blaine Mathison, 17 September, 2019 - 9:42pm

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