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I found this beetle under the bark of a decaying pine log on Tree Spring Trl. (No. 147), 9300 ft, Sandia Crest 7.5’ quadrangle in the Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo Co, NM.

Identification is based on locality (Leng(1) reports debilis from Colorado), habitat (Arnett(2) reports the genus is found under bark), and the images at the MCZ Type database(3).

Detailed views of the attached mites are posted here:



This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 140 images with a 5.6 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo M Plan APO 10X/0.28 ∞/0 mm microscope objective + Nikon 200 mm F4 AF ED IF macro lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 10X; technique described here).