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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Cillaeinae » Colopterus » Colopterus semitectus
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wide, flat nit - Colopterus semitectus
Copyright © 2008 Jim McClarin

wide, flat nit - Colopterus semitectus
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
June 8, 2008
Size: about 4.2 mm
This was one of several sap beetles that visited some melon rinds I had turned face-down on the ground as a nitidulid bait station.

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wide, flat nit - Colopterus semitectus wide, flat nit - Colopterus semitectus wide, flat nit - Colopterus semitectus wide, flat nit - Colopterus semitectus
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 24 June, 2008 - 8:22am
Last updated 2 February, 2011 - 8:54pm

Moved
Moved from Sap-feeding Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 24 June, 2008 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

Colopterus semitectus (Say)
Good looking beetle, looks like Colopterus semitectus (Say).
… Michele Boeing Price, 24 June, 2008 - 3:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Michele.
Good to have a visiting expert on this family :-)
… Jim McClarin, 24 June, 2008 - 4:18pm login or register to post comments

Looks
interesting. Keep for me if you can, please.
… Donald S. Chandler, 24 June, 2008 - 11:47am login or register to post comments

 
I saved it live
so if it hasn't been consumed, it's yours. I note that C. semitectus is on your checklist and presumably in your collection.
… Jim McClarin, 24 June, 2008 - 4:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes
that was my suspicion, but our specimens are about 3 mm long, not 4+ mm. Wasn't confident enough to make a determination with that degree of size difference in a family where I don't know the species well. I would still like the specimens, as we don't have that many.
… Donald S. Chandler, 26 June, 2008 - 4:19pm login or register to post comments

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