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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellistenini » Mordellina » Mordellina testacea
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mordellid - Mordellina testacea
Copyright © 2010 Blaine Mathison

mordellid - Mordellina testacea
Keysville, Burke County, Georgia, USA
August 19, 2010
Size: 1-2 mm

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Contributed by Blaine Mathison on 20 August, 2010 - 3:28pm
Last updated 10 December, 2010 - 9:08am

Moved
Moved from Tumbling Flower Beetles.

I can't find anything that sounds better than testacea
… Tim Moyer, 10 December, 2010 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Tim
I think that's my fourth new species of mordellid for BG. Who woulda thought?
… Blaine Mathison, 10 December, 2010 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

 
hope so.
I had spent 20 minutes or so re-reading the species descriptions and keys around testacea until I was convinced there could be no other. Then, not 5 minutes after moving your tumbler, I came to another of your images which we previously said could be andreae (one of the many color variations), and it looks scary close to this one. I then re-checked the key, and these two sp. split at "elytra with markings", or "elytra unicolor". Yet some varities of andreae certainly look like what I would call unicolor.

We need a real expert for these tumblers. I've been hacking them up something bad.
… Tim Moyer, 10 December, 2010 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

M. testacea?
???
… Blaine Mathison, 23 August, 2010 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

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