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 Attalus pictus, identified already ;)
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| Isidro |
Posted on 28-04-2007 08:43
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2084 Joined: 26.04.07 |
What species can be it? At Pe?iscola, Castellon, Spain (near Mediterranean sea), in prairie with few trees. It's no more size than 2 mm.  Thanks 
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| Dmitry Gavryushin |
Posted on 28-04-2007 16:30
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 Member Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3331 Joined: 17.10.05 |
I think Malachiidae. |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 28-04-2007 17:31
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2084 Joined: 26.04.07 |
It`s possible... but it's very small, less than 2 mm.. and the Malachiidae beetles loooks more long legs... by other side, the pronotum resembles more Malachiidae than Anthicidae... Thanks by the approximation, Black. Somebody know more? |
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| Frank Koehler |
Posted on 29-04-2007 20:26
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 Member Location: Bornheim / Rheinl. (D) Posts: 280 Joined: 30.09.06 |
Malachiidae is ok, but I can?t find anything similar. Please contact me by e-mail and I tell you which expert can help. Best regards Frank --------------------------------------------------- Col.: http://www.koleop...de/gallery Het.: http://www.hetero... --------------------------------------------------- |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 29-04-2007 22:08
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2084 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks by the offer. I don't know how can I see your e-mail. If you want take the picture and send tho the expert. Is very, very small... for Malachiidae... The photo is my finger: the beetle size is about 2 mm. |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 30-04-2007 11:44
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
I do not see the soft ?lytres of Melyridae=Malachiidae, to see http://www.insecte.org/forum/anthicidae-notoxus-sp-anthicidae-notoxus-monoceros--vt16366.html?highlight=anthicidae But I do not know rien, there.....souvent Malachiidae are always green or green and red or smallest red even Genus Axinotarsus cthirion |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 30-04-2007 12:02
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2084 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Or black... But Notoxus species have a horn in the pornotum. This one don't have any horn.  |
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| cthirion |
Posted on 30-04-2007 14:56
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Member Location: Awirs (Flémalle) Belgique Posts: 901 Joined: 13.08.04 |
Ok, I hide!  The pronotum is too flat too ! cthirion |
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| Frank Koehler |
Posted on 30-04-2007 16:52
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Member Location: Bornheim / Rheinl. (D) Posts: 280 Joined: 30.09.06 |
Here is the answer of Robert Const., an french expert in Malachiidae and related beetle families: "Attalus pictus (Kiesenwetter, 1850) : Spain and French Pyrenes-Orientales" Best regards Frank PS. Are there better (larger) pictures of this species? --------------------------------------------------- Col.: http://www.koleop...de/gallery Het.: http://www.hetero... --------------------------------------------------- |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 30-04-2007 19:31
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2084 Joined: 26.04.07 |
THAAAAAANKS!!! I think that it was impossible to identify! Is curious that this beetle that I caught at Meditrerranean coast was cited in mountain habitat (Pyrenees), I think that it can be a similar species in the same genus. Sorry, this is the only picture that I have. You can see that the beetle lost his antennae  Really I think that was an Anthicidae! |
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| Frank Koehler |
Posted on 01-05-2007 16:44
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Member Location: Bornheim / Rheinl. (D) Posts: 280 Joined: 30.09.06 |
What you are talking about, Isidro??? Why should a spanish beetle - with doubtless coloration and id - not occure at the southwest coast of france? Delete the cf., find this species again and take a better photo Greetings Frank |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 01-05-2007 23:08
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2084 Joined: 26.04.07 |
at the southwest coast of france? Oh! Sorry, I understood that occurs on the Pyrenees, at mountain habitat. I don't know that it occurs also at coast. In these case, the identification is much more sure. Thanks again! |
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