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Extremely Small Grayish bug (flea?) - Romualdius scaber
Copyright © 2005 JesseM

Extremely Small Grayish bug (flea?) - Romualdius scaber
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
June 2, 2005
This picture is just for scale you can see the face on the dime. I am thinking possibly a flea? The other picture shows its antennae..

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Contributed by JesseM on 3 June, 2005 - 2:46am
Last updated 31 October, 2018 - 4:17am

Moved
Moved from Crusted Root Weevil.
… Boris Büche, 31 October, 2018 - 4:17am login or register to post comments

 
I'm Confused
The Info page lists Trachyploeus bifoveolatus (Beck 1817) as a synonym of Romualdius scaber (Linnaeus, 1758).

Bousquet et al. (2013) list both T. scaber (Linnaeus, 1767) and R. bifoveolatus (Beck, 1817). Borovec (2009) transferred bifoveolatus (Beck, 1817) to Romualdius and lists Trachyphloeus scaber Redtenbacher, 1849 as synonyms however, T. scaber (Linnaeus, 1767) is not mentioned.
… Steve Nanz, 31 October, 2018 - 7:40am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 29 March, 2007 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

of course
- Trachyphloeus , but sp... Boris is Cool!!
… To_K_, 10 March, 2007 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

Entiminae: Trachyphloeus bifoveolatus
:-)
… Boris Büche, 19 December, 2006 - 9:29am login or register to post comments

 
Antennae Placement
Aren't the antennae to far back? I found images of T. bifoveolatus and they all show the antennae coming out of the tip of the snout, not the middle.
… Steve Nanz, 14 June, 2008 - 3:42am login or register to post comments

 
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… Steve Nanz, 14 June, 2008 - 3:42am login or register to post comments

 
Antennae placement o.k.
Steve, I don´t know on which images you referred - but there are lot of misidentifications in the web. this image is 100% trustworthy, please compare.
… Boris Büche, 14 June, 2008 - 4:47am login or register to post comments

 
That's one of the images I was using.
I was looking at that image and comparing it to T. angustisetu*lus on the same site here. I also compared them using the images here. I'm not suggesting that JesseM's image is of T. angustisetu*lus but between the two it looked better. The antennae on JesseM's images seem to come out of the middle of the snout like that of T. angustisetu*lus whereas the antennae of T. bifoveolatus come out closer to the tip of the snout.

I am a total novice at this and have no idea how much variation there is with this feature. I really appreciate the time that experts like yourself donate to helping out and I hope that my questioning does not offend.
… Steve Nanz, 15 June, 2008 - 4:38am login or register to post comments

 
These bugs help?
I am trying to find out why these bugs have moved into my kitchen window area?I have no plants in the house.Can anyone help?
… Karin Immerman, 7 March, 2009 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

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