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Astylopsis? - Astylopsis collaris

Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 21, 2011

Attracted to mercury vapor lamp (but was running away from my flashlight). I think this is genus Astylopsis, can anyone confirm?

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Contributed by Jennifer Forman Orth on 16 February, 2012 - 7:44pm
Last updated 17 February, 2012 - 11:18am

Doug Yanega says: "Astylopsis collaris, from what I can see -

"...doesn't appear to have black tufts of hair on eleytra (=sexguttata), nor strong white markings (=macula)."

[nice beetle, Jennifer --and a great shot, too; thanks! =v=]
Moved from Astylopsis.

… v belov, 17 February, 2012 - 11:18am

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Mass. distribution

Interesting that all the bugguide records for this species are from Mass. I have another photo of an Astylopsis from back in 2007 here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/urtica/2301452160/

… Jennifer Forman Orth, 17 February, 2012 - 1:40pm

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Photographer bias

We have a lot of prolific contributors from MA, which often skews the distribution on the data maps (which are incomplete for almost all species anyway).

… Brad Barnd, 17 February, 2012 - 6:46pm

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Yup

Interpreting data from BugGuide can be very dangerous. Images on BugGuide are pics of random insects from random photagraphers who happened to be at a particular spot when a particular insect happened to be present. Locality and temporal data on BG is completely random and reflects in no way an organism's abundance in a particular area.

You know, Middlesex Co, MA does seem to be a hot bed of nature photographers...and you are all VERY good :).

… Blaine Mathison, 17 February, 2012 - 7:11pm

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Must be something in that Middlesex water....

… Brad Barnd, 17 February, 2012 - 7:16pm

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careful Brad...

you're gonna set me up for another bad joke :)

… Blaine Mathison, 17 February, 2012 - 7:19pm

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I just said it was interesting...

I didn't say I was gonna write a thesis on it :-)

… Jennifer Forman Orth, 17 February, 2012 - 11:08pm

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