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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Malachiinae » Malachiini » Malachiina » Axinotarsus » Axinotarsus pulicarius
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Beetle - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male
Copyright © 2011 amateurcollector

Beetle - Axinotarsus pulicarius - Male
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 28, 2011
Size: about 8mm
its elytra are folded at posterior end (to mimic a flower?)

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Beetle - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male elytra - Axinotarsus pulicarius - male
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Contributed by amateurcollector on 28 June, 2011 - 5:29pm
Last updated 27 August, 2013 - 9:52pm

Did you find this in Toronto?
Can you give us more specifics about where you found it and what it was doing?
… john and jane balaban, 28 June, 2011 - 6:44pm login or register to post comments

 
I found it trapped inside a b
I found it trapped inside a bus stop glass booth (I can give you the intersection if you want). A lot of insects get trapped inside the booth.
… amateurcollector, 29 June, 2011 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

 
hope you collect those, as your pen name implies
here's what Dr Mayor has to say: "Good call, Axinotarsus pulicarius it is. I suspect that the Axinotarsus sp. females posted earlier, also from Toronto, are A. pulicarius. The species is widespread in Europe, while most of the others have much more restricted distributions, and it seems unlikely that two species of Axinotarsus have been introduced into Toronto. Very nice photograph."
… v belov, 29 June, 2011 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Dang!
Are they all as awesome as this one? Great find.
… Andrew Meeds, 29 June, 2011 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 28 June, 2011 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

wow. didn't expect that! will show to Dr Mayor
this must be the European Axinotarsus pulicarius --interesting! malachiine males often sport various depraved designs of elytral apices.
… v belov, 28 June, 2011 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

 
thank you!
thank you!
… amateurcollector, 29 June, 2011 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

Melyridae
nice photo.
… M. N. O'Donnell, 28 June, 2011 - 5:40pm login or register to post comments

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