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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Nemognathinae » Nemognathini » Tricrania » Tricrania sanguinipennis
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early riser - Tricrania sanguinipennis
Copyright © 2014 Joshua Stuart Rose

early riser - Tricrania sanguinipennis
Puffer's Pond Conservation Area, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
February 26, 2012
I thought for sure this would be an easy one to ID. Not only is it brilliantly colored, but how many beetles are out and about in February in Massachusetts? But I must be looking in the wrong families, because I haven't found it yet...
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 4 March, 2014 - 2:28pm

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… Blaine Mathison, 4 March, 2014 - 2:51pm login or register to post comments

must be Tricrania sanguinipennis
… metrioptera, 4 March, 2014 - 2:32pm login or register to post comments

 
pretty early for these to be out
I usually start seeing these at the end of March/early April up in Maine.
… metrioptera, 4 March, 2014 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

 
I *was* looking in the wrong family...
Thanks for the ID! I was so sure that this was a Cerambycid, hadn't even considered the Meloidae.
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 5 March, 2014 - 11:56am login or register to post comments

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