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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Plate-thigh Beetles (Eucinetidae) » Nycteus » Nycteus infumatus
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beetle - Nycteus infumatus
Copyright © 2006 Joyce Gross

beetle - Nycteus infumatus
Berkeley, Alameda County, California, USA
April 8, 2006
Size: approx. 4mm
Came to UV light at night.
Could this be Eucinetidae? See here.

I have shots from various angles but didn't get underside shot because when I turned the beetle over I discovered it can jump extremely well ... and it disappeared with one jump in my friend's livingroom.

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 10 April, 2006 - 4:10am
Last updated 5 August, 2006 - 2:08pm

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The other obvious choice is one of the Melandryidae. I'll look, or maybe someone with easy access to some specimens can verify. I'm hoping you're right though - Eucinetidae would be a new family for the guide! Too bad you couldn't get a ventral shot - that would have been a big help here - large metacoxa. The antenna should be enough.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 10 April, 2006 - 12:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Not quite first.
Tom Murray posted one almost a year ago, but declined to create a new family page until he was "100% sure."
… Jim McClarin, 10 April, 2006 - 6:29pm login or register to post comments

 
didn't see those
these should be identifiable to family, just need to look
… Phillip Harpootlian, 11 April, 2006 - 8:28am login or register to post comments

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