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Pleasing Fungus Beetle

Aegithus melaspis

Description:

Red elytra, red pronotum, red head, black scutellum.

Habitat:

tropical rainforest. Corcovado National Park

1 Species ID Suggestions

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago
Pleasing Fungus beetle
Aegithus cf. meridionalis


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1 Comment

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

A. melaspis not as convex, and egg-shaped:
http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/267333-A...

pamsai
Spotted by
pamsai

Puerto Jiménez, Provincia Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Spotted on May 20, 2015
Submitted on Mar 2, 2016

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