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small Darkling Beetle - Platydema nigrata
Copyright © 2014 Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara

small Darkling Beetle - Platydema nigrata
Mid Buehman canyon, W of Redington, Pima County, Arizona, USA
March 8, 2014
Size: approx 6mm
Found on the ground in a moist fungal mass which fell off of a tall tree near a stream. Thank you for your help.

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Contributed by Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara on 27 March, 2014 - 11:31am

Moved tentatively
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 27 March, 2014 - 11:43am

 
looks good...
I've also collected this species in AZ (Yavapai County)...on a fungal mass on a felled cottonwood (Populus) in a riparian area.
… Blaine Mathison, 28 March, 2014 - 10:16am

 
ID confirmed by Warren Steiner
hes adds, "other black ones are in AZ, but more convex, etc."
… v belov, 7 April, 2014 - 5:04pm

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