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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Minute Clubbed Beetles (Monotomidae) » Rhizophagus » subgenus Rhizophagus (Rhizophagus subgenus Rhizophagus) » Rhizophagus sayi
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orange-spotted monotomid - Rhizophagus sayi
Copyright © 2008 Jim McClarin

orange-spotted monotomid - Rhizophagus sayi
Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
November 14, 2008
Size: about 2.8 mm
I found a couple of these little slow-moving monotomid beetles under a loose patch of bark on a fairly fresh oak log. The position of the orange areas on the elytra make me think this is R. sayi. This one was missing an antenna but I made a vertical flipped copy of the image in PhotoShop, rotated, and lassoed and moved the good antenna from the copy over to the original, flattened the image, and clone-stamped to make the background blend in.
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 15 November, 2008 - 7:11am
Last updated 5 November, 2010 - 2:08pm

Nice find Jim!
And good job on the photoshop. If you didn't say anything, I'd never notice it wasn't natural.
… tom murray, 15 November, 2008 - 9:38am login or register to post comments

 
It helps
that I have 360-degree lighting so the shadows don't betray my handiwork :-)
… Jim McClarin, 15 November, 2008 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

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