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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Handsome Fungus Beetles (Endomychidae) » Lycoperdininae » Mycetina » Mycetina hornii
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handsome fungus beetles - Mycetina hornii - male - female
Copyright © 2009 Joyce Gross

handsome fungus beetles - Mycetina hornii - Male Female
Stanislaus National Forest, Calaveras County, California, USA
June 16, 2009
Size: 3-3.5mm
Is Mycetina hornii correct? M. idahoensis in the MCZ type database looks awfully similar.

These were under the bark of a very rotten log with lots of fungus.

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 9 December, 2009 - 1:31am

looks rather horny indeed
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… v belov, 9 December, 2009 - 6:38am login or register to post comments

 
yes but
...not sure if we can put names on everything based on that :)
… Joyce Gross, 10 December, 2009 - 1:55am login or register to post comments

 
that may be subject to argument; however:
i asked Floyd W. Shockley right away to check it, and he told me that "The images are, in fact, M. horni; M. idahoensis is much more robust with much rounder lateral margins."
so your ID stands confirmed by our leading LBB expert
… v belov, 10 December, 2009 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice...
...
… Blaine Mathison, 9 December, 2009 - 7:26am login or register to post comments

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