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Pleasing Fungus Beetle

Erotylidae

Description:

Coleoptera, white elitra with black spots and a humpback in the middle of the body, antennae with a club in the end, about 1,5 cm long.

Habitat:

In the wall of a house, rural setting and lot of grassland in the surroundings.


1 species ID suggestions

Pleasing Fungus Beetle
Erotylidae

2 Comments

Rock35
Rock35 11 months ago

Thanks a lot!!!

bayucca
bayucca a year ago

Might actually be a Cypherotylus costaricensis. Look at #7 in the link page of the old volume Biologia Centrali Americana:
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections...
This means that this little guy might also have another name in the meanwhile. I only know Gibbifer sp. from the north. About Erotylidae and most probably Erotylinae I am pretty sure.

San José, San José, Costa Rica

Lat: 10.01, Long: -84.03

Spotted on Apr 28, 2012
Submitted on Apr 29, 2012

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