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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Prometopinae » Prometopia » Prometopia sexmaculata
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Sap-feeding Beetle - Prometopia sexmaculata
Copyright © 2013 Robert Lord Zimlich

Sap-feeding Beetle - Prometopia sexmaculata
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
March 18, 2013
Size: ~6mm
This is larger than any I've seen before
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 18 March, 2013 - 9:27pm
Last updated 19 March, 2015 - 8:36pm

Sap-feeding Beetle
Moved from ID Request.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 19 March, 2013 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

Prometopia sexmaculata
.
… Michael C. Thomas, 19 March, 2013 - 10:26am login or register to post comments

 
Size?
Michael,
What accounts for this beetle being twice the size of my usual P. sexmaculata? While there is an obvious difference in thread-count, I physically measured it, to be sure. I would not have thought there would be this big a difference within a species. Thank you.
Robert
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 19 March, 2013 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

 
I have
about 80 specimens in front of me and it seems like the variation is pretty huge. Im getting everything from 4mm to 8mm
… Gareth Powell, 19 March, 2013 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

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