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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Fruit and Flower Chafers (Cetoniinae) » Valgini
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Tiny Scarab beetle?
Copyright © 2008 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Tiny Scarab beetle?
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 8, 2008
Size: 4 mm
Sorry Best shot I could get-look like it even has tiny mites on it

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Tiny Scarab beetle? Tiny Scarab beetle?
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 9 May, 2008 - 12:25am
Last updated 9 May, 2008 - 9:31am

The valgines have short, thick, flattened setae.
It looks like this one has lost most of its dorsal setae. I guessing that these are the "mites" you are seeing. The valgines live in ant galleries. They are also very good at playing dead as you probably discovered.
… Jim McClarin, 9 May, 2008 - 5:12am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks! I found it "swimming"
Thanks! I found it "swimming" in a bucket of rain water-at first it looked like a tick - then I looked closer and it surely did play dead.

On the back leg facing the camera-it looks like a bunch of tiny tiny mites clinging to it. I wasn't sure if that's how the beetle is supposed to look or if they were mites.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 9 May, 2008 - 9:30am login or register to post comments

 
Compare leg "mites" with
http://bugguide.net/node/view/41260
http://bugguide.net/node/view/88467/bgimage
http://bugguide.net/node/view/88463/bgimage
http://bugguide.net/node/view/103146/bgimage
… Jim McClarin, 9 May, 2008 - 10:54pm login or register to post comments

Valgini tribe
found here
… Boris Büche, 9 May, 2008 - 4:36am login or register to post comments

 
Thank-you! ^__^
Thank-you! ^__^
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 9 May, 2008 - 9:31am login or register to post comments

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