BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Melasis buprestoides (L., 1761) (a false click beetle)

Date:	20 May 2007
Location:	West Norfolk, England
Voucher:	20/05/2007[J] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State:	Imago
Record Summary:	Several emerging from (or ovipositing in?) dead, decorticate patch on oak trunk
Associated organism:	on decorticate wood of Quercus

Images etc

	Female - dorsal view - grey background - highly enlarged			500 by 299 pixels
	Female - head and thorax - dorsal view - grey background - highly enlarged			500 by 360 pixels
	Female - ovipositing in wood - highly enlarged			500 by 444 pixels
	Female - ovipositing in wood - highly enlarged			500 by 368 pixels
	Female - ovipositing in wood - highly enlarged			500 by 411 pixels
	Female - ovipositing in wood - highly enlarged			500 by 363 pixels
	Female - ovipositing in wood - highly enlarged			500 by 381 pixels
	Female - ventral view - grey background - highly enlarged			500 by 340 pixels
	Male - dorsal view - grey background - highly enlarged			500 by 235 pixels
	Male - head and thorax - dorsal view - grey background - highly enlarged			500 by 445 pixels
	Male - in situ - dorsal view - highly enlarged			500 by 269 pixels
	Male - in situ - dorsal view - highly enlarged			500 by 305 pixels
	Male - in situ - dorso-lateral view - highly enlarged			500 by 392 pixels
	Male - in situ - postero-dorsal view - highly enlarged			500 by 432 pixels
	Male - ventral view - grey background - highly enlarged			500 by 245 pixels