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Beetles (Coleoptera)

Beetles (Coleoptera)

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Beetles (Coleoptera)

Click beetles (Elateridae)
Darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae)
Carab beetles (Carabidae)
Jewel beetles (Buprestidae)
Lady beetles (Coccinellidae)
Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)
Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae)
Scarab beetles (Scarabaeidae)
Stag beetles (Lucanidae)
Water beetles (several families)
Weevils (Curculionoidea)
Other beetles
Checkered Beetles (Cleridae)
Rove beetles (Staphylinidae)

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KorinneM wrote:
Yesterday
What a cool looking beetle!
Calligrapha bicolorata
MarkH wrote:
Yesterday
That would be fantastic Miranda. Good luck 🤞
Melobasis sp. (genus)
Miranda wrote:
Yesterday
Wow! That's very exciting. I didn't collect it unfortunately but I'd be happy to help try and find some more. I think the plant is exocarpus strictus.
Melobasis sp. (genus)
HaukeKoch wrote:
19 Feb 2025
It's lacking the characteristic colouration of A. concolor on the elytra. Likely A. porosus, but it's better to get a view of the rear showing the dorsal side of the pygidium as well to exclude A. boisduvalii and A. olivieri.
Anoplognathus sp. (genus)
MarkH wrote:
19 Feb 2025
I don’t think this is a Melobasis. The shape doesn’t look right. I can’t think of anything immediately that it would be so I suspect it may be a new genus. It resembles a Torresita however it doesn’t look right as Torresita doesn’t have the ridging on the elytra so I don’t think it is that genus.
Miranda, did you collect the specimen by chance? Is it possible to get some specimens for ANIC?
Interesting plant it is on. Do you know what that is ?
Melobasis sp. (genus)

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