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Small beetles in a flower of cactus - Trichochrous varius
Copyright © 2006 Jan Metlevski

Small beetles in a flower of cactus - Trichochrous varius
Valley of Fires National Recreation Area, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
May 29, 2006
Size: 4-5 mm

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Small beetles in a flower of cactus - Trichochrous varius Small beetles in a flower of cactus - Trichochrous varius Small beetles in a flower of cactus - Trichochrous varius
Contributed by Jan Metlevski on 10 June, 2006 - 9:40am
Last updated 22 April, 2017 - 1:33pm

Moved
Moved from Dasytinae.
… v belov, 22 April, 2017 - 1:33pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 November, 2006 - 2:16pm

Byturid convention
These look to me like family Bytu*ridae, but it's a new species for bugguide. By any chance did you take a closeup in which the beetle is at least half as long as your image is wide? It would help in ID work.
… Jim McClarin, 10 June, 2006 - 12:53pm

 
Wrong :-)
A couple months after making this comment I collected my first dasytines on a visit to southern New Mexico. They weren't this species but I would have no trouble identifying these as dasytines now :-)
… Jim McClarin, 16 September, 2007 - 5:25am

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