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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Carpophilinae » Caplothorax » Caplothorax melanopterus
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Yucca Nitidulid Larva - Caplothorax melanopterus
Copyright © 2009 Stephen Luk

Yucca Nitidulid Larva - Caplothorax melanopterus
University of Guelph campus (N43º31'47"W080º13'34"), Wellington, Ontario, Canada
July 23, 2009
Size: 7.0 mm
Many of these were found in the dying flower heads of ornamental Yucca.
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 28 July, 2009 - 1:04pm
Last updated 3 February, 2011 - 3:54pm

Yucca beetle
I found these same beetles on the flowers of a yucca plant in SE PA. It seems that the beetles followed their host plant as it was planted farther north, away from its natural distribution.
… Beatriz Moisset, 18 December, 2018 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

 
Northern find
Indeed! I remember I was rather surprised to find this species in Ontario, on the same host plants year-over-year.
… Stephen Luk, 19 January, 2019 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

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