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

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

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

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