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Latridiidae ? - Melanophthalma

Latridiidae ? - Melanophthalma
5 mi NE Dexter, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA
July 17, 2012
Size: 1.7 mm
From Mercury Vapor & Ultraviolet lights.

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Moved

Moved
Moved from Corticariinae.

interesting
... nothing that I've seen before. I'll keep this one in the back of my mind.

 
Charlene, I'm thrilled to kno
Charlene, I'm thrilled to know this little guy is Latridiidae - a family in which I have few examples in my collection. Further id is a big bonus.

 
also:
does the specimen have a 2-segmented antennal club? It appears that way to me from the photos, and with the inconspicuous 6th visible abdominal sternite, probably in the subgenus Cortilena...

 
oh yes...
Sorry Jerry- I meant that it is peculiar to me, for placement below Corticariinae, but with my comment here on the coxal lines, I think we can "safely" put it in Melanophthalma. I am used to those species having more angulate pronotal margins, but there are a number of species of that I haven't seen, and some on the Harvard MCZ website (e.g. M. incompta Fall and M. casta Fall), which do have similar flat, smooth, pronotal form...

 
cool.
thanks again, Charlene.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Genus Melanophthalma ?
Perhaps, see

First impression..
Latridiidae Minute Brown Scavenger Beetle, see what others come up with....my friend.

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