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Pleasing Fungus Beetle

Languria sp.

Photo by LuckyLogan
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Field Notes

Description:

I really wish I would have seen this when I was there, but I noticed this metallic blue bug when I was going through my pictures. As you can see it's on a type bracket fungi. There appears to be some type of liquid coming out of the fungus with the bug may have been feeding on.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
LuckyLogan
Awesome stho002! Thanks for the help.
stho002
Family Erotylidae. Possibly Triplax sp., see: http://bugguide.net/node/view/13856/bgpage or maybe Languria sp., see: http://bugguide.net/node/view/3074/bgpage

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Iowan Biodiversity
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PublishedNovember 12, 2013

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