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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Nitidulinae » Nitidulini » Nitidula complex » Nitidula » Nitidula carnaria
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Nitidulid - Nitidula carnaria
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Nitidulid - Nitidula carnaria
Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 14, 2011
Size: 2.7 & 3.4mm
Found under old fish bones on the beach.

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Contributed by tom murray on 14 September, 2011 - 5:59pm

not bad at all... common across Europe, not so here
Moved from Sap-feeding Beetles.
… v belov, 14 September, 2011 - 6:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Maybe common in the right places here
There were at least a dozen of these under the fish bones.
… tom murray, 14 September, 2011 - 6:08pm login or register to post comments

 
the coastal habitat makes perfect sense
other imported Nitidula spp. may also hang out there; bones are their food of choice (also Omosita & Soronia's)
… v belov, 14 September, 2011 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Next time I'm at the coast
I'll keep an eye out for carcasses near the beach. Maybe something else good will turn up.
… tom murray, 14 September, 2011 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

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