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<html> <head> </head> <body> <br> <br> Christopher Majka wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:4383BE53-1CFA-4FA3-A721-0F713B72B750@ns.sympatico.ca"> Hi Eleanor, <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"> </div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span">Astute entomological and etymological readers my recognize in this account the names, <i>Nycetus</i>, for whom the delightful beetle genus<i> Nycteus <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "> (Latreille, 1829) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "> (in the family Eucinetidae, the so-called "plate-thigh beetles") </span></i> is named (five species in North America), one of which<i> N. punctulatus</i> (LeConte) which is found in (amongst other places), Nova Scotia. </span></div> </blockquote> Hi Chris & All, Sept 15, 2005<br> I collected a small beetle on Sept 5 (1208) that had two prominent features; very enlarged hind coxae and a combination of features that did not fit any family that I could think of. So your mention of 'plate-thigh' solved that riddle, at least to family level.<br> <br> The key in Amer. Beetles conflicts with the figures so one must navigate by guesswork and doing so has <i>Nycteus</i> as the endpoint. <br> 5.meso- & 5.meta-tarsomere longer than 4. respectively;<br> procoxae transverse;<br> 5 visible sternites with trace of 6th;<br> sutural stria impressed in apical 3/5 but other stria not hinted;<br> epipleura widened in basal 1/3;<br> head hidden from above and narrowed abruptly distal to eyes;<br> antenna long and gradually widened as in Fig 1.35 for <i>E. terminalis</i> LeConte.<br> <br> Does this fit <i>N. punctulatus</i> (LeConte) or any <i>Nycteus</i> ?<br> <br> Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville<br> <br> </body> </html>
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