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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Epuraeinae » Epuraea » Subgenus Epuraeanella (Epuraea Subgenus Epuraeanella) » Epuraea nearctica
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Nitidulid - Epuraea nearctica
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Nitidulid - Epuraea nearctica
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 13, 2011
Size: 3.3mm
Found on the underside of a mushroom.
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Contributed by tom murray on 13 October, 2011 - 7:23pm

Moved tentatively... at last! will ask A.C. to check
Moved from Sap-feeding Beetles.
… v belov, 13 October, 2011 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

 
from Andrew Cline:
"Epuraea helvola would be my best guess, but Epuraea is one of those genera that I do not like to give species identifications without seeing the specimen. This is the most confusing nit genus in the Nearctic by far. In fact, the E. labilis species complex (as currently defined) must have the males dissected to confirm species. However, the specimen imaged here does approach E. helvola, but I wouldn't give it my 100% guarantee."
… v belov, 14 October, 2011 - 10:27am login or register to post comments

 
Epuraea helvola
Great, another new species for the guide. I checked the UNH site, and it has 4 species of Epuraea listed that are not in the guide yet. I'll have to keep looking for them:-)
… tom murray, 13 October, 2011 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

 
NH: depressa=>aestiva; just labilis & rufida missing
bot may well be already present among BG unsorted pix, they are among those i simply don't grasp yet
… v belov, 13 October, 2011 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

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