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small brown beetle - Canifa pallipes
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

small brown beetle - Canifa pallipes
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 29, 2006
Size: 3.3mm
Found walking on the railing of a wooden bridge in a wooded swampy area.
Contributed by tom murray on 30 May, 2006 - 8:58pm
Last updated 24 June, 2016 - 5:44pm

must be C. pallipes (Melsheimer)
Moved from Canifa.
… v belov, 29 April, 2009 - 12:15pm

Great, Tom!
I do believe this is our first adult scraptiid.
… Jim McClarin, 31 May, 2006 - 7:44pm

Scraptiidae: Canifa sp.
Finally an adult of this family. Usually on flowers.
… Donald S. Chandler, 31 May, 2006 - 7:40pm

 
Canifa sp.
Thanks Don and Jim.
… tom murray, 31 May, 2006 - 9:19pm

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