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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Minute Brown Scavenger Beetles (Latridiidae) » Latridiinae » Dienerella » subgenus Dienerella (Dienerella subgenus Dienerella) » Dienerella pilifera
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Little brown beetle - Dienerella pilifera
Copyright © 2012 Charley Eiseman

Little brown beetle - Dienerella pilifera
Massachusetts, USA
Size: 1.3 mm
I was cleaning out my various bug-raising bags and vials yesterday, and I found this little dead beetle stuck to the outside of one of the bags.

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Little brown beetle - Dienerella pilifera Little brown beetle - Dienerella pilifera
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 3 January, 2012 - 10:56am
Last updated 20 January, 2012 - 11:03am

Moved
Moved from Dienerella.
Unfortunately the specimen was damaged in shipping, but Wolfgang Rücker says it seems to be Dienerella pilifera (Reitter, 1875), which would be a new record for the continent (see guide page).
… Charley Eiseman, 20 January, 2012 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

Wolfgang Rücker says that this could be ...
...Dienerella beloni (Reitter 1882) (he has specimens from China, Africa, Carbo Verde, Madagascar, USA: Baltimore) or, rather unlikely, D. laticeps (Reitter 1884). Are the elytra pubescent? these species are hard to tell apart from photos. For a reliable ID, please send voucher specimens.
… v belov, 6 January, 2012 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

Dienerella ruficollis
...according to the key by Majka et al 2009, based on having 3 antennal segments in the club, little to no basal pronotal impression, and pronotal base narrower than elytra.
… Charlene Wood, 5 January, 2012 - 5:54am login or register to post comments

 
definitely not!
sorry, actually doesn't look anything like ruficollis. No match with any of the other dorsal habitus figures in the article...
… Charlene Wood, 5 January, 2012 - 5:57am login or register to post comments

 
Hmm...
Well, I've still got the specimen, if there's someone I should send it to. Maybe Christopher Majka can take a look at these images before I do though. Too bad I don't have better information about its origins.
… Charley Eiseman, 5 January, 2012 - 6:16am login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively; interesting...
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 5 January, 2012 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

Latridiidae?
kind of similar to this:
… J. Anderson, 3 January, 2012 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

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