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small beetle with unusual antennae - Caenocara

Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
April 13, 2006
Size: 2.5mm

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small beetle with unusual antennae - Caenocara

small beetle with unusual antennae - Caenocara

Contributed by tom murray on 13 April, 2006 - 11:11pm
Last updated 14 April, 2006 - 7:25am

Puffball Beetle

… Jim McClarin, 14 April, 2006 - 5:55am

So that's what it is

I didn't find it on a puffball, it was walking on a dirt path. Thanks Jim.

… tom murray, 14 April, 2006 - 7:27am

Different from all three spp. I've posted

It looks closest to this sp. I posted last year.

However, the more sparse, shorter setae and the lack of any protruding point on the middle enlarged antennomere tell me it's a different species.

… Jim McClarin, 14 April, 2006 - 6:47pm

different species

It is a different species from the one Jim posted a day or so ago. The second segment of the antennal club is different.

… Donald S. Chandler, 14 April, 2006 - 11:30am

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