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Fletcher Wildlife Garden | all galleries >> Beetles (Coleoptera) of the FWG (23 Galleries) >> False Darkling Beetles (Family: Melandryidae) > False darkling beetle (Dircaea liturata)
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21-JUN-2013 Christine Hanrahan

False darkling beetle (Dircaea liturata)

Tonight, Barry, Diane and I went mothing at the FWG. There were few moths to see, but lots of beetles, including quite a few of these false darkling beetles, in the Family Melandryidae. They have a very distinctive shape and pattern, and are typically only found at night, where they readily come to lights, as we discovered. They feed on fungi amongst a few other things. This is another new species for our FWG list.

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