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Toe-Winged Beetle

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Description:

A small beetle of about 4 mm of the Family Ptilodactylidae (Toe-Winged Beetles). It was on the wall below a light at the Hotel Posada Loma. Many if not most of the beetles in this family have aquatic or semi-aquatic larvae and adults feed on microfungi. The antennae have protrusions on segments 4 through 10.

Habitat:

Fortin de Las Flores, Veracruz, Mexico.

Notes:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/38501 http://bugguide.net/node/view/13057 http://www.inbio.ac.cr/papers/coleoptera... http://delta-intkey.com/elateria/www/pti...

1 Species ID Suggestions

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thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago
Toe-winged beetle
Ptilodactylidae Family Ptilodactylidae - Toe-winged Beetles - BugGuide.Net


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2 Comments

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 7 years ago

Thank you Thaptor for the identification! Neat Family of beetles!

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

Often confused with Anobiidae in first sorting of scientific collections :-)

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LaurenZarate
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LaurenZarate

Fortín de las Flores, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Mexico

Spotted on Feb 22, 2013
Submitted on Mar 15, 2013

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