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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Nitidulid series » Sap-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae) » Pollen Beetles (Meligethinae) » Brassicogethes » Common Pollen Beetle (Brassicogethes aeneus)
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Brassicogethes aeneus (Fabricius) - Brassicogethes aeneus
Copyright © 2013 Mike Quinn

Brassicogethes aeneus (Fabricius) - Brassicogethes aeneus
Montosa Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
July 26, 2013
Det. Boris Büche, 2018

coll'ed beating/sweeping, during BugGuide Gathering_2013

spmn in the TAMUIC
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 15 September, 2013 - 11:27am
Last updated 2 January, 2022 - 11:49pm

Moved
Moved from Black Pollen Beetle.

Note slight metallic sheen, and protibiae paler than others (and more slender than in nigrescens).
… Boris Büche, 22 August, 2018 - 5:38am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Brassicogethes.
… Mike Quinn, 20 September, 2013 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

Andy Cline: "Looks a bit more like Fabogethes nigrescens to me;
"could be Brassicogethes, it's just hard to tell."
… v belov, 20 September, 2013 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thalycra.
… v belov, 15 September, 2013 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

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