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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Cucujid series » Silken Fungus Beetles (Cryptophagidae) » Atomariinae » Atomariini » Atomaria » subgenus Anchicera (Atomaria subgenus Anchicera) » Atomaria ephippiata
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Silken Fungus Beetle - Atomaria ephippiata
Copyright © 2010 tom murray

Silken Fungus Beetle - Atomaria ephippiata
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 30, 2010
Size: 1.7mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 30 April, 2010 - 11:12pm
Last updated 7 November, 2023 - 1:33pm

Moved
Moved from Atomaria fuscata.
… v belov, 14 August, 2015 - 11:57am login or register to post comments

Atomaria fuscata Schönherr --det. C. Johnson
Moved from subgenus Anchicera.
… v belov, 30 April, 2012 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

 
Sorry Colin, but I don´t believe in fuscata...
..but in a very dark A. ephippiata (more than in disticta).

J e n s
… Jens Esser, 12 August, 2015 - 3:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Atomaria.
… v belov, 7 May, 2011 - 9:22pm login or register to post comments

distincta?
Moved from Silken Fungus Beetles.
… v belov, 1 May, 2010 - 1:30am login or register to post comments

 
Probably distincta
I found it in exactly the same habitat as the one I got a few weeks ago. I was sifting piles of grass/hay that were washed up on the edges of a farm field.
… tom murray, 1 May, 2010 - 7:17am login or register to post comments

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