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Dear Mrs Lundberg,
this is a male of the spider beetle Ptinus fur.
Best regards
Reiner Pospischil
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Datum: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:54:03 +0100
Von: "Lundberg, Holly" <[email protected]>
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help
These little guys were found in a sticky trap at one of our off-site storage facilities, which is an old cold war bunker type storage facility we inherited from a bank.
4 adults were found in the trap. They range in size from 3 – 4 mm in length. The pictures aren’t the best, but I’m hoping someone can help with the identification.
In terms of the beetle themselves, They are an orangey-brown color, and of a type where the heads are not visible from above. Under magnification, I can see that the head, protonum and elytra are hairy. The elytra have longitudinal rows of pits. The antennae are very long and appear to be filiform? I counted 11 segments. The hair seems to have some lighter coloring (whitish across the elytra and also in ( ) shape at center of the protonum. The ( ) shaped area on the protonum appear to be ridge like, and a very slight conical shaped area protrusion can be seen on each side of this area visible but blurry in pic 3..
Any ideas?
Thanks
Holly
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