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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Water Scavenger Beetles (Hydrophilidae) » Sphaeridiinae » Megasternini » Cryptopleurum » Cryptopleurum minutum
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Tiny beetle - Cryptopleurum minutum
Copyright © 2014 Robert Vigneault

Tiny beetle - Cryptopleurum minutum
Oka, Deux-Montagnes County, Quebec, Canada
June 1, 2014
Size: 1.3mm
From flight interception trap
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Contributed by Robert Vigneault on 27 June, 2014 - 1:01am
Last updated 13 July, 2014 - 9:35pm

Moved
Moved from Megasternum.
… v belov, 13 July, 2014 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

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… Robert Vigneault, 27 June, 2014 - 11:23am login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
use(1) to key it out
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 27 June, 2014 - 7:30am login or register to post comments

 
Cryptopleurum minutum
Inflexed part of pronotum markedly angulate; Pronotum without microsculpture; Scutellum punctate; Elytra with stria 6 fused with 7, lateral intervals at most more slightly convex than median ones.

Seems to key out to that species.
… Robert Vigneault, 28 June, 2014 - 10:41am login or register to post comments

 
great, thanks
well, if it keys out alright, you as experienced entomologist should feel free to move your pics accordingly
thanks for your fine contributions to the Guide --keep them coming!
… v belov, 13 July, 2014 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

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