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Shining Flower Beetle - Stilbus apicalis

Shining Flower Beetle - Stilbus apicalis
Edmundston, Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada
June 4, 2011
Size: 1,8mm
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Moved
Moved from Stilbus.

Stilbus apicalis (Melsheimer)
This is Stilbus apicalis (Melsheimer). See the following paper for more information:
Majka, C.G., Gimmel, M.L., and Langor, D. 2008. The Phalacridae of Canada: new records, distribution, and bionomics with a particular focus on the Atlantic Canadian fauna. In: Majka C.G., Klimaszewski J. (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera. ZooKeys 2: 209-220.

Moved

Stilbus sp.
Note single stria and multiple long prosternal setae.

unrelated to any aquatic beetles...
use(1) to ID

Moved from Hydrophilinae.

 
Thanks for the reference, but
Thanks for the reference, but very difficult for me to differenciate,
easier for me to photograph..