Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Attalus pictus, identified already ;)
Posted by Isidro on 28-04-2007 09:43
#1
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 ;)
Edited by Isidro on 02-05-2007 00:09
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 28-04-2007 17:30
#2
I think
Malachiidae.
Posted by Isidro on 28-04-2007 18:31
#3
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?
Posted by Frank Koehler on 29-04-2007 21:26
#4
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
Posted by Isidro on 29-04-2007 23:08
#5
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.
Posted by cthirion on 30-04-2007 12:44
#6
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
Posted by Isidro on 30-04-2007 13:02
#7
Or black...
But Notoxus species have a horn in the pornotum. This one don't have any horn.
Posted by cthirion on 30-04-2007 15:56
#8
Ok, I hide! :(
The pronotum is too flat too !
Posted by Frank Koehler on 30-04-2007 17:52
#9
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?
Posted by Isidro on 30-04-2007 20:31
#10
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 :o
Really I think that was an Anthicidae!
Posted by Frank Koehler on 01-05-2007 17:44
#11
:( 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
Posted by Isidro on 02-05-2007 00:08
#12
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!