unknown insect - Yakuhananomia bidentata

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellini » Yakuhananomia » Yakuhananomia bidentata

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Copyright © 2010 Charles Schurch Lewallen

unknown insect - Yakuhananomia bidentata

Deep Fork Wildlife Refuge, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
July 25, 2010
Size: aprox. 12mm

at first glance I thought it was a tumbling flower beetle, then fly then wasp.
I think my first guess was right. Tomoxia lineella?

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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 25 July, 2010 - 7:38pm

great picture, Sir.

re: Japanese connection
Several universally recognized mordellid genera were erected in the 1930s by Kôno, a Japanese coleopterist, to accommodate various parts of genera he disbanded, and named to honor his countrymen/friends. Members of Hoshihananomia and Yakuhananomia (incl. this one) are common species native to many parts of America and Eurasia

Moved from ID Request.

… v belov, 25 July, 2010 - 8:04pm

beetle

Thanks for the information and the ID.

… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 25 July, 2010 - 9:02pm

Or maybe

Yakuhananomia bidentata?

Let's see what the experts have to say.

… Ken Wolgemuth, 25 July, 2010 - 7:46pm

beetle

Thanks, could be. What is the Japanese connection? is it not native?

… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 25 July, 2010 - 7:50pm

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