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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Broad-hipped Flower Beetles (Ischaliidae) » Broad-hipped Flower Beetles (Ischaliinae) » Ischalia » Ischalia vancouverensis
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Fungus Beetle? - Ischalia vancouverensis
Copyright © 2019 Libby & Rick Avis

Fungus Beetle? - Ischalia vancouverensis
Alberni Valley - Fossli Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
October 10, 2019
Size: 7 mm approx
Several found under log among fungus next to numerous larvae. Close-up of larvae posted separately:

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Contributed by Libby & Rick Avis on 21 October, 2019 - 2:19pm
Last updated 15 February, 2021 - 10:03am

Moved
Moved from Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 15 February, 2021 - 10:03am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ischalia vancouverensis.
… Boris Büche, 15 February, 2021 - 10:02am login or register to post comments

Moved
my guess is the larvae belong to a different species

Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 21 October, 2019 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Blaine!
We would never have found this otherwise.

Did a bit of folow-up on the web on Ischalia larvae and found this article:

Daniel K. Young
The Coleopterists Bulletin
Vol. 39, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 201-206
"Description of the larva of Ischalia vancouverensis"
where he describes adults and larvae being found together feeding on fungal growth on decaying logs which was the case here. Larvae were subsequently raised.

I don't have the technical knowledge to follow all of the detailed description of the larvae in the article, but it seems very similar as does the illustration.
… Libby & Rick Avis, 27 October, 2019 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

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