Unknown Beetle (?) Ventral View
Jul 28, 2020 19:09:54 #
This is a top view of the unknown flying beetle (?) that I posted the face view of earlier today. Perhaps this will help identify what type of insect it is.
Jul 28, 2020 19:45:15 #
Jul 28, 2020 19:56:49 #
kpmac wrote:
Very nice but that would be a dorsal view, sippy.
Oh poop..! I said one thing and mean another. I guess it's too much of the 'sippy in the jug'.
Jul 28, 2020 20:52:31 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a top view of the unknown flying beetle (?) that I posted the face view of earlier today. Perhaps this will help identify what type of insect it is.
That is dyslexia in a vertical mode.
But, my ant theory is bust. No geniculate antenna.
The jaws are for shearing, probably meat.
The abbreviated elytra point to the most probable ID. Staphylinidae. The Rove Beetles.
Many are flesh eaters, either live fly larva and flesh of the dead the larva are feeding on, or other soft bodied insects, mostly larva.
Many of these feed on maggots in carrion, dung, and rotting mushrooms.
To go further in ID would probably be futile. A large family of a lot of small beetles, some only a bit over one mm.
Bill
Jul 28, 2020 21:06:46 #
newtoyou wrote:
That is dyslexia in a vertical mode. br But, my an... (show quote)
Bill, I believe that you are onto something. I keep the dog yard clean after each outing however it is impossible to get every crumb up out of the gravel of the exercise yard. I suspect that the scent of dog 'dung' attracts insects like this one and it flirted with disaster when it got caught in the water bowl.
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