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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Malachiinae » Malachiini » Apalochrina » Collops » Collops limbellus
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Soft-winged Flower Beetle - Collops limbellus
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

Soft-winged Flower Beetle - Collops limbellus
Mt. Graham, Graham County, Arizona, USA
August 4, 2009
Size: 4.5mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 16 August, 2009 - 12:38pm
Last updated 27 January, 2010 - 4:25pm

Moved
Moved from Collops.
Thanks Adriean for the species identification, and the info!
… tom murray, 27 January, 2010 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

Melyrid from Mt. Graham.
V. Belov is correct this is a male of Collops limbellus Gemminger & Harold. The species occurs in the western US often on the flower spikes of grasses. It can be found from Durango Mexico north into Arizona, California, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah. It can be distinguished from the similarly colored C. flavicinctus by the black erect hairs on the elyta which are pale in C. flavicinctus.
… Adriean Mayor, 27 January, 2010 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

C. ?limbellus G&H [limbatus LeC.]
Moved from Soft-winged Flower Beetles.
… v belov, 7 December, 2009 - 5:43pm login or register to post comments

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