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Polypore Teneb - Platydema americana
Copyright © 2008 Stephen Luk

Polypore Teneb - Platydema americana
Blue Mountain (N43º30.9'W080º15.47'), Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
May 8, 2008
Size: 6 mm
I'm certain that this teneral beetle is the same species as that which I just posted. It emerged from a very different fungus--a firm, soggy polypore I ripped off a stump. I have no idea what it's covered in.
Contributed by Stephen Luk on 8 May, 2008 - 11:46pm
Last updated 6 December, 2014 - 11:43am

Moved
Moved from Platydema.
… v belov, 6 December, 2014 - 11:43am

suspect P. subcostatum Laporte & Brullé
do you have the date for this one? you seem to have missed the date box
… v belov, 7 May, 2009 - 11:08am

 
Date field updated.
Why subcostatum? I thought it was perhaps just a teneral P. americanum.
… Stephen Luk, 26 May, 2009 - 7:27pm

Moved
Moved from Darkling Beetles.
… Stephen Luk, 10 May, 2008 - 10:43am

Platy*dema
are evidently not too picky about fungus species.
… Jim McClarin, 9 May, 2008 - 5:01am

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