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Burrowing Bug - Microporus nigrita

Burrowing Bug - Microporus nigrita
Richmond Hill, York Region, Ontario, Canada
June 18, 2021
Size: 5.0 mm

Moved tentatively
Moved from Burrowing Bugs.

 
Super!
Not the fact that my backyard teems with adventive bugs; but I wouldn't have known where in Cydninae to start, even tentatively...

 
despite their dull, uniform look they are pretty recognizable...
...once you've spent some time messing with pinned specimens -- and also surprisingly easy to key out using Froeschner's magnificent treatise(1)

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