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Monotomid - Monotoma bicolor -

Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 5, 2013

Found in a pile of grass clippings.

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Monotomid - Monotoma bicolor - male

Monotomid - Monotoma bicolor - male

Contributed by tom murray on 5 June, 2013 - 11:18pm
Last updated 26 September, 2013 - 9:17pm

Monotoma bicolor Villa & Villa, male

ID confirmed from this male specimen, now a photo-voucher, and examination of its genitalia. Thanks Tom.

… Brad Barnd, 26 September, 2013 - 9:08pm

Moved

Moved from Monotoma.

… v belov, 6 June, 2013 - 9:14am

tantalizing... leaning towards bicolor...

...but can't rule out other options; the head is out of focus, can't see what is really going on there: eyes appear too small, and temporal part almost parallel --might well be an illusion caused by vestiture

Moved from Root-eating Beetles.

… v belov, 6 June, 2013 - 7:08am

another pic added

the head is is better focus in that one.

… tom murray, 6 June, 2013 - 8:06am

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