Hello there !
Aujourd'hui le Méloé printanier ! Un insecte de la famille des coléoptères, dont les larves se développent en parasitant les colonies d' hyménoptères...
Ici il s'agit d'une femelle, avec l'abdomen plus gros que celui du mâle !
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Alphasida depressa

European Firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) on Tree Mallow (Malva arborea)

Brachycerus muricatus

#NewSpecies
New jewel beetle from #china just glittered:

Anthaxia zhengyucheni

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87BC-0F69-FF85-B37F-02462737FC6B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2438409
#JournalOfNaturalHistory #AnthaxiaZhengyucheni

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#NewSpecies!
New longhorn beetle from #ecuador just snuck in:

Pachyforma rosacea

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/710087D7-D030-FFF8-FF43-651A9C9A8F0F
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5424.5.8
#Zootaxa #PachyformaRosacea

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Found a beautiful #beetle in a young Acacia in Aranda, ACT this evening.

It's a #JewelBeetle, Diphucrania leucosticta.

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/628938-Diphucrania-leucosticta

Yellow-horned flower longhorn beetle (𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘴) on common mullein (𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘶𝘴), from July 2023:

Cicindela sylvicola Dejean, 1822

Specimen was captured in July 1996 in the Ardennes region, France.

I've used the focus-stack technique, DIY hardware only (a Raspberry HQ cam controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3, an old Pentax-m 50mm f1.7 lens, some extension tubes, and a $30 linear rail from Aliexpress)

Published under #CC0 here https://www.flickr.com/photos/101430615@N03/53071909547

Orange Ladybird (Halyzia sedecimguttata)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_Ladybird_(Halyzia_sedecimguttata)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-08-22.jpg

It’s Saturday night. Here are two palmetto tortoise beetles with adorable feet having sex. #insects #coleoptera #beetles #Chrysomelidae

Un exemplar de Chlorophorus varius, un coleòpter de la família dels cerambícids, família que reuneix a escarabats de cos esbelt i antenes llarguíssimes.

Golden Tortoise Beetle (Charidotella sexpunctata)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Golden_Tortoise_Beetle_(Charidotella_sexpunctata)_-_Guelph,_Ontario_02.jpg

it's #WeevilWednesday. and the first night of Hanukkah. and this got into my head. quickly dashing it out before I have to prep for guests

#MastoArt #art #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea

Common Asparagus Beetle (Crioceris asparagi)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Asparagus_Beetle_(Crioceris_asparagi)_(35543248401).jpg

#NewSpecies!
New dung beetle from #india just came in:

Sinodrepanus schoenfeldi

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F84587F0-FFFA-FFF5-30CB-FD53F136F855
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5537.4.10
#Zootaxa #SinodrepanusSchoenfeldi

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oh shit it's #WeevilWednesday

BEHOLD: this majestic _Poteriophorus imperatrix_ observed in the Philippines by Claude Chavand: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38706476

#iNaturalist #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Dryophthorinae

#NewSpecies!
New stag beetle from #china just came in:

Lucanus qizhihaoi

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0395879A-FFF8-3469-FF42-E195FDA0B133
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5541.2.4
#Zootaxa #LucanusQizhihaoi

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#WeevilWednesday: i'm out of weevil pictures of my own so here's an image with an incredibly powerful aura by Kai Squires (squiresk on iNat). Species is _Parasalcus latissimus_, seen in Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia.

#iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218587854

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Cryptorhynchinae