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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Tumbling Flower Beetles (Mordellidae) » Mordellini » Tomoxia » Tomoxia lineella
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Mordellidae, dorsal - Tomoxia lineella
Copyright © 2013 MJ Hatfield

Mordellidae, dorsal - Tomoxia lineella
Ames - Tullamore, Story County, Iowa, USA
June 17, 2007
Size: 7 mm
Woodland Malaise trap, June 9, 2007 to June 17, 2007
Are the red areas on the ends of the elytra where hairs are missing?

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 19 January, 2013 - 1:48pm
Last updated 27 November, 2015 - 9:29am

Moved
Moved from Tumbling Flower Beetles.
… Tim Moyer, 24 January, 2013 - 11:32am login or register to post comments

yes, lineella
suspect the "red" areas on elytra are where the elytra have moved outward from the abdomen underneath (note, the increasing separation along suture), and now have light shining through them from bottom upward.
… Tim Moyer, 24 January, 2013 - 11:32am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I've been fooled by that before.
… MJ Hatfield, 24 January, 2013 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

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