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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Malachiinae » Malachiini » Apalochrina » Collops » Collops bipunctatus
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Two-spotted Melyrid (Collops bipunctatus) - Collops bipunctatus - female
Copyright © 2012 Melissa Barton

Two-spotted Melyrid (Collops bipunctatus) - Collops bipunctatus - Female
Adams County, Colorado, USA
July 1, 2012
Size: ~5mm
Rather small beetle was hard to photograph, and unfortunately this was the best I could do. The red thorax has two black spots.
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Contributed by Melissa Barton on 6 July, 2012 - 12:54am
Last updated 3 August, 2022 - 2:08pm

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Moved from ID Request.
… Melissa Barton, 9 July, 2012 - 10:15pm login or register to post comments

I would go with...
...Two-spotted Melyrid (Collops bipunctatus) but please wait for an expert. The thumbnail below is a male. I can't be sure but I think yours is female but the antennae are a bit blurred.

… Ron M., 6 July, 2012 - 4:34am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I think you're right. Unfortunately I couldn't get any pictures with the antennae in focus--it was moving very fast (and in a rather odd habitat for a melyrid), and I was lucky to get this one.
… Melissa Barton, 8 July, 2012 - 9:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, a female
I agree with Ron M...the enlarged 3rd antennal segment would be visible here if it were a male.
… Aaron Schusteff, 12 September, 2012 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Since taking this picture I've seen quite a few of these around, some male.
… Melissa Barton, 12 September, 2012 - 10:39pm login or register to post comments

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