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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Xyletininae » Xyletinini » Vrilletta » Vrilletta blaisdelli
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Tricky beetle - Vrilletta blaisdelli
Copyright © 2011 R. Berg

Tricky beetle - Vrilletta blaisdelli
Alameda County, California, USA
April 16, 2011
Size: 6.5 mm bl
Found motionless on vertical surface (garage door), six feet off the ground, afternoon. After taking all the photos, I touched the beetle and it fell straight down as if dead, but I couldn't find it on the ground, and the positions of its antennae had recently changed (see the two semifrontal views). I think it was faking.

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Contributed by R. Berg on 16 April, 2011 - 11:57pm
Last updated 6 May, 2014 - 4:57am

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Moved from Vrilletta.
… Boris Büche, 6 May, 2014 - 4:57am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Xyletinini.
… v belov, 21 April, 2011 - 9:23am login or register to post comments

sweet! nice beetle, and good pix, too -- thinking, Xyletinus
will consult the gurus

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