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Minute beetle - Aenigmaticum californicum

Minute beetle - Aenigmaticum californicum
Presidio Hills, San Francisco County, California, USA
May 13, 2020
Size: ca 1 mm
Beat from Lupinus arboreus, unfortunately lost in processing/collection, probably frass. Maybe someone can ID to family? Maybe a tenebrionoid?

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Moved

 
Thanks -
v! I will try to collect the next one more carefully and get better pics.

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Moved from Beetles.

Thanks Blaine! Feel free to frass as needed, of course. Will try to collect one if I can - I swear I put this into the killing jar but couldn't find it later. Might be stuck to one of my larger specimens now that I think about it! :)

for starters, must be a staphylinoid

 
hmmm... looks corylophidy to me
perhaps along the lines of

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