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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Dasytinae » Listrini » Asydates » Asydates grandiceps
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Melyrid? - Asydates grandiceps
Copyright © 2008 Ron Hemberger

Melyrid? - Asydates grandiceps
Nix Nature Center, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, USA
July 14, 2008
On twiggy wreath
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 5 August, 2008 - 10:42pm
Last updated 28 July, 2015 - 11:19am

Moved
Moved from Dasytinae.
… v belov, 28 July, 2015 - 11:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Soft-winged Flower Beetles.
… Ron Hemberger, 22 September, 2008 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

can be safely moved to Dasytinae page
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… v belov, 22 September, 2008 - 1:17am login or register to post comments

First I thought
of Ela*catis in Salping*idae - but antennae are not clubbed: May be a Melyrid - but I never saw one with such a big head.
… Boris Büche, 6 August, 2008 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

 
"big head"
It was no doubt impressed at being portrayed by such an illustrious photographer.

Thanks, Boris. I'll see if anyone else weighs in.
… Ron Hemberger, 6 August, 2008 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

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