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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Minute Clubbed Beetles (Monotomidae) » Monotominae » Europini » Hesperobaenus » Hesperobaenus abbreviatus
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small flat beetle - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus
Copyright © 2008 Joyce Gross

small flat beetle - Hesperobaenus abbreviatus
Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Mendocino County, California, USA
April 26, 2008
Size: ~2+mm
This looks very similar to Hesperobaenus abbreviatus and also the MCZ type specimen. Hopefully I at least have the right family... Found under bark of a dead tree.

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 3 May, 2008 - 2:47pm
Last updated 14 July, 2011 - 12:13pm

Moved per T. McElrath's forum comments
Moved from Leptipsius striatus.
… v belov, 14 July, 2011 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Root-eating Beetles.
… Joyce Gross, 14 September, 2008 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

Yup,
Monotomidae.
… Jim McClarin, 3 May, 2008 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Leptipsius striatus
[check MCZ type of Monotoma striatum LeConte, 1858]
… v belov, 11 September, 2008 - 10:41am login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
The MCZ specimen sure is beat up, but it looks as if you found a match.
… Joyce Gross, 14 September, 2008 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

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