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ID help? - Holoparamecus
Copyright © 2020 Glen Forister

ID help? - Holoparamecus
Loomis, Placer County, California, USA
July 5, 2020
Size: 1.1 mm
Taken from Loomis Lindgren Funnel.
Elevation 700’, GPS = 38.8198, -121.1173
Rural residential area with animals & oaks and conifers.

Antennae are 11 segmented.
Antennal insertion seem to be hidden from above.
I couldn't count the tarsi.

After a couple of hours trying to key it out I would appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

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ID help? - Holoparamecus ID help? - Holoparamecus ID help? - Holoparamecus
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Contributed by Glen Forister on 14 November, 2020 - 7:55pm
Last updated 15 November, 2020 - 6:16am

Moved, Holoparamecus was my thought too...
I collected it once in AZ

Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 15 November, 2020 - 6:16am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Blaine & Gary
This one had me good. Never seen anything like it. That anthicid like (I knew it couldn't be that) sublateral discal carinae from pronotal base laterad of basal pits really had me stumped.

Once keyed to family (hard to do due to almost transparent minute characters) Endomychidae, it keys to genus easily.
… Glen Forister, 15 November, 2020 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

Endomychidae - Handsome Fungus Beetle?
Something in the Genus Holoparamecus?

Gary
… Gary Griswold, 15 November, 2020 - 6:01am login or register to post comments

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