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Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Insecta, Order: Coleoptera, Suborder: Polyphaga, Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea, Family: Pyrochroidae.
Spotted on Dec 8, 2011
Submitted on Feb 20, 2012
3 Comments
Problem is, that details are obscured by blurryness, and the beetle apparently is a mimic of Lycidae.
Such "disguisers" often look pretty different from normal members of their family.
The head of your beetle is pretty long, which better fits Prionoceridae, or Oedemeridae, than Pyrochroidae. Remains a guess, unless someone KNOWS the species.
Are this beetle of the Pyrochroidae family (Fire-coloured beetles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrochroida...
Are the beetles of the Pyrochroidae family?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/9123/bgima...
http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/firecolor...