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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Darkling Beetles (Melandryidae) » Melandryinae » Xylitini » Rushia » Rushia longula
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Eucnemidae? - Rushia longula
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

Eucnemidae? - Rushia longula
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 2, 2012
Size: 6mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 2 July, 2012 - 8:48pm
Last updated 19 October, 2012 - 9:05pm

Moved
Moved from False Darkling Beetles.
… v belov, 19 October, 2012 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Serropalpini.
… tom murray, 3 July, 2012 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
Thanks Blaine. Looks like it's one I haven't seen before.
… tom murray, 3 July, 2012 - 8:58am login or register to post comments

 
or maybe Hypulini???
maybe best to put at family level for now :) And you are right, it doesn't look at all familiar...
… Blaine Mathison, 3 July, 2012 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

not Eucnemidae
looks like another serropalpine melandryid, but I'd have to snoop around some more. Don will probably recognize it readily.
… Blaine Mathison, 3 July, 2012 - 8:38am login or register to post comments

 
From
my distant location in Sicily, it is familiar, and I think maybe Rush*ia longula, but not certain enough without checking the collection to say it with authority.
… Donald S. Chandler, 3 July, 2012 - 1:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Rushia longula?
Don, I hope your vacation is all you expected it to be. I saved the specimen for you to check in the future.
… tom murray, 3 July, 2012 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

 
yes,
and yes.
… Donald S. Chandler, 19 October, 2012 - 9:03pm login or register to post comments

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