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small brown beetle - Colopterus truncatus
Copyright © 2009 Lynn Bergen

small brown beetle - Colopterus truncatus
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
May 2, 2009
Size: 2 mm.
Found on Red Oak stump.
Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 4 May, 2009 - 6:09am
Last updated 4 May, 2009 - 10:51pm

This looks
rather more like Colopterus than Carpophilus.
… Michael C. Thomas, 4 May, 2009 - 9:01am

 
sure; has to be C. truncatus
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… v belov, 4 May, 2009 - 9:50am

Carpophilus sp
… margarethe brummermann, 4 May, 2009 - 7:38am

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