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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Nitidulid series » Short-winged Flower Beetles (Kateretidae) » Heterhelus » Heterhelus sericans
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Kateretidae, dorsal - Heterhelus sericans
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Kateretidae, dorsal - Heterhelus sericans
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
September 14, 2013
Size: 1.8 mm
collected on Goldenrod, Solidago sp.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 6 April, 2014 - 9:34pm
Last updated 16 June, 2014 - 2:26pm

Heterhelus sericans --det. A. Cline
his comment: "the host information is interesting since almost all collections of this species are on Sambucus, which is the known larval host"

Moved from Short-winged Flower Beetles.
… v belov, 16 June, 2014 - 2:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks to you both.
I don't know enough about insects but could this little beetle have been out for a walk, or a flyabout, or got blown about rather than on it's host?
… MJ Hatfield, 16 June, 2014 - 5:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved...hope I got this right; could also be a nitidulid
Moved from Sap, Bark, Fungus and Lady Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 7 April, 2014 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

 
you got it
not a nit
… Gareth Powell, 7 April, 2014 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

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