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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Melyridae) » Larvae
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Red Beetle Larva
Copyright © 2007 Joe, Entomologist (in training)

Red Beetle Larva
Ames, Story County, Iowa, USA
March 22, 2007
Size: 2 mm
I found this guy crawling about some moist papery bark I'm keeping in an aquarium. The color is spectacular. I'm guessing Cucujiformia... not that it narrows it down much.

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Contributed by Joe, Entomologist (in training) on 22 March, 2007 - 10:08pm
Last updated 5 November, 2009 - 8:47pm

Moved
Moved from Soft-winged Flower Beetles.
… v belov, 2 April, 2009 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 15 October, 2008 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

Melyridae, I suppose
Melyridae, I suppose
… Artjom Zaitsev, 15 October, 2008 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Soft-winged Flower Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 25 May, 2007 - 7:55am login or register to post comments

Melyridae was the first family I thought of too.
Here are a couple I found, both pink but nothing as bright as yours:1 and 2
… Jim McClarin, 23 March, 2007 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

Its Melyridae - almost sure
only Cleridae would be possible too - but unlikely by size.

cheers, Boris
… Boris Büche, 23 March, 2007 - 10:10am login or register to post comments

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