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Dienerella pilifera
Photo#605358
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.
Images of this individual:
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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).
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Charley Eiseman
, 20 January, 2012 - 11:03am
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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.
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v belov
, 6 January, 2012 - 2:59pm
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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.
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Charlene Wood
, 5 January, 2012 - 5:54am
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definitely not!
sorry, actually doesn't look anything like ruficollis. No match with any of the other dorsal habitus figures in the article...
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Charlene Wood
, 5 January, 2012 - 5:57am
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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.
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Charley Eiseman
, 5 January, 2012 - 6:16am
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Moved tentatively; interesting...
Moved from
Beetles
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v belov
, 5 January, 2012 - 12:17am
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Latridiidae?
kind of similar to this:
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J. Anderson
, 3 January, 2012 - 2:21pm
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