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Insect

Description:

Erotylidae

Habitat:

Rainforest

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago
Pleasing Fungus Beetle
Gibbifer cf. impressopunctata Counting Bugs In Panama? Get Out Your Tree Raft : NPR


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8 Comments

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

certainly related to this, even better mimic:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/atojar/795...

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

This one is NOT Strongylium (eyes not approximate on head, more oval shape).

bayucca
bayucca 7 years ago

Not really what I would expect from Strongylium, though...
http://www.americaninsects.net/b/strongy...

bayucca
bayucca 7 years ago

Any further IDeas, Boris?

bayucca
bayucca 7 years ago

OK, at least a mimic ;-(, Thanks, Boris!

thaptor
thaptor 7 years ago

Not a Pleasing Fungus beetle at all - a mimic!

Belongs in Tenebrionidae (details of eyes, tarsi, antennae . . .) and pretty well imitates Gibbifer sp..

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Erotylidae, should be Gibbifer sp. and could be Gibbifer cf. impressopunctata.

eesquivelrios
Spotted by
eesquivelrios

Provincia de Panamá Oeste, Panama

Spotted on Jul 16, 2014
Submitted on Jul 16, 2014

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