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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Dasytinae » Listrini » Trichochrous » Trichochrous apicalis
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Melyridae beetle from Lucerne Valley, Mojave Desert - Trichochrous apicalis
Copyright © 2011 David L. Magney

Melyridae beetle from Lucerne Valley, Mojave Desert - Trichochrous apicalis
Lucerne Valley, just E of SR 18, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Size: 2.5 mm
closer, possibly sharper photo of 3 adult Melyridae beetles

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tiny flower beetle? on Asteraceae in Lucerne Valley portion of Mojave Desert - Trichochrous apicalis Melyridae beetle from Lucerne Valley, Mojave Desert - Trichochrous apicalis
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Contributed by David L. Magney on 27 April, 2011 - 7:50pm
Last updated 22 April, 2017 - 11:19pm

Moved
Moved from Dasytinae.
… v belov, 22 April, 2017 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

this looks more convincing
pls try to take better gabitus pix at conventional rather than random angles -- then we'll have a much better shot to an ID

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 1 May, 2011 - 9:03am login or register to post comments

 
I'm sorry, but I don't know t
I'm sorry, but I don't know the term "gabitus", and I can't find it online or in my small entomology library. Please define.
Thanks
… David L. Magney, 1 May, 2011 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

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