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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Carpet, Powder-post and Death-watch Beetles (Bostrichoidea) » Carpet Beetles (Dermestidae) » Thorictini » Thylodrias » Odd Beetle (Thylodrias contractus)
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Is that a beetle??? - Thylodrias contractus
Copyright © 2011 Gaspard Tanguay-Labrosse

Is that a beetle??? - Thylodrias contractus
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
March 20, 2011
Size: 1 mm
Found that guy indoors. It is still cold outside, so I doubt it comes from there. It is a real luck that I actually got to see it, because it could have been living there for years unnoticed as it is very small...

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Is that a beetle??? - Thylodrias contractus Is that a beetle??? - Thylodrias contractus
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Contributed by Gaspard Tanguay-Labrosse on 20 March, 2011 - 4:54pm
Last updated 6 March, 2017 - 2:08pm

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… Gaspard Tanguay-Labrosse, 20 March, 2011 - 8:42pm login or register to post comments

Cool! Happy to see that I've
Cool! Happy to see that I've got the first specimen from Quebec (and even for East Coast) on BG... even if it is a widespread beetle. I guess I won't frass it then.
… Gaspard Tanguay-Labrosse, 20 March, 2011 - 8:42pm login or register to post comments

yes, a male Thylodrias contractus
they only live indoors
… v belov, 20 March, 2011 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

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