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aglaia.bsky.social
#ElkeDagEenInsect of drie. Een oude foto waarvan de bestandsnaam zegt dat het gaat om Meliscaeva auricollis (elfje) met Nitidulidae (glanskevers).
Meliscaeva auricollis (elfje) met Nitidulidae (glanskevers)
March 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
americanbeetles.bsky.social
the "we give up" model of beetle taxonomy strikes again
snippet of a table from an insect-plant association study, in which the species of Nitidulidae (the most commonly collected beetle family in this project!!) are IDed as "Nitidulidae 1" through "Nitidulidae 5"
February 28, 2026 at 1:27 AM
paulmeesters.bsky.social
#ElkeDagEenInsect #Insect
Het #glanskevertje (familie Nitidulidae, soort onbekend – Nitidulidae indet.) is een klein, glanzend kevertje dat vaak op bloemen, sapstromen of rottend fruit voorkomt. Het voedt zich met suikers en speelt een rol bij afbraak en bestuiving.
Glanskevertje onbekend - Nitidulidae indet.
April 1, 2026 at 6:25 AM
bertonemyia.bsky.social
Sap #beetles covered in mites, getting down & dirty in their putrid oozing love spa ❤️ 😘 #Nitidulidae: #Amphicrossus [Costa Rica]

They do clean up nice, though! I love the male's fins 😍 [US species]
A saucer-shaped, reddish brown sap beetle in the family Nitidulidae, walking among slimy ooze from a rotting tree. It's covered in small translucent mites. Two saucer-shaped, reddish brown sap beetles in the family Nitidulidae, mating among slimy ooze from a rotting tree. They are covered in small translucent mites. A saucer-shaped, brown sap beetle in the family Nitidulidae, on a white background. It's covered in fine hairs, with a small triangle made of spiky hairs on the top of each wing covering. These triangles look like tiny racing fins.
December 21, 2024 at 4:14 PM
americanbeetles.bsky.social
Very fancy lil beetle larva from Puerto Rico samples, I’m thinking Nitidulidae but never met one with those sclerotized lateral processes
Eyepiece photo of a fat little larva with a double row of buttons down its back
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
paulmeesters.bsky.social
#ElkeDagEenInsect #Insect
De #Epuraea-soorten zijn kleine, ovaalronde glanskevers uit de familie Nitidulidae. Ze leven vaak op bloemen, sapstromen en rottend plantaardig materiaal. De soorten zijn lastig van elkaar te onderscheiden en hebben vaak een geelbruine tot donkerbruine kleur.
Op #Stofzaad
Epuraea spec.
September 12, 2026 at 5:18 AM
aglaia.bsky.social
Met @fransbouma.bsky.social en @janwieringa.bsky.social wezen zoeken naar gestylopiseerde bijen. Je vindt nooit wat je zoekt, maar wel altijd andere leukerds, waaronder veel Nitidulidae (glanskevers). Meligethes van speenkruid en van hondsdraf en Glischrochilus quadriguttatus massaal in een zwam.
Meligethes sp. on Ficaria Meligethes sp. on Glechoma hederacea Glischrochilus quadriguttatus
March 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Liu et al. Integrative taxonomy of Teucriogethes #PollenBeetles ( #Coleoptera: #Nitidulidae: Meligethinae), with implications on the systematics of the genus Teucrium (Lamiaceae) doi.org/10.1071/IS23... #Beetle #Beetles #NewSpecies
February 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
nashturley.bsky.social
Epuraea, a sap-feeding beetle in the family Nitidulidae
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
oval reddish brown beetle with clubbed antannae on yellow and white flower oval reddish brown beetle with clubbed antannae on yellow and white flower, can see the full compound flower, an Erigeron
May 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
nottscoleoptera.bsky.social
If you like your skin and bones on the dry side you may be an Omosita. Omosita discoidea, the one I encounter the most often here in Nottinghamshire. #Coleoptera #Nitidulidae
May 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
timworfolk.bsky.social
2024 Highlights #6. Found about 20 beetles new to me in Topsham this year, most in the garden. Here's a few of them.
#UKWildlife
#Coleoptera
#beetles
Cryptocephalus pusillus (Chrysomelidae) 23 August 2024 Topsham, Devon. Attagenus pellio (Dermestidae) 13 April 2024 Topsham, Devon. Omosita colon (Nitidulidae) 6 May 2024 Topsham, Devon Microplontus campestris (Curculionidae) 27 April 2024 Topsham, Devon.
December 17, 2024 at 2:03 PM
cosmopterix.bsky.social
I made a trap out of lees (dead yeast slurry from making wine). I was expecting a lot of Drosophila, but I mostly ended up with Nitidulidae. I think there are at least 3 species here. #coleoptera #beetles
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
The tips of the antennae are too chunky for Coccidula rufa. Maybe one of the Nitidulidae or Cryptophagidae?? Not much help there… sorry!
December 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
americanbeetles.bsky.social
Nitidulidae have many useful characters, but my faves are the "antenna bobbles" (compact, rounded antennal club) and shortened elytra, under which you can see just a smidgen of butt hanging out.
Nitidulid beetle, shiny and round but still with distinctive antenna bobbles and short elytra/ass hanging out. They also tend to have very protrusive little chompy mandibles.
June 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
botsocamerica.bsky.social
Looking to the past to inform the future: What #eDNA from #herbarium specimens can tell us about plant–animal interactions

New in #AppsPlantSci by Chris Waters, Carla Hurt & Shawn Krosnick

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #iamabotanist #metabarcoding
An inflorescence of Physaria globosa showing various stages of flower development including buds, newly opened flowers, older flowers, and developing fruits. There is a small flower beetle (Nitidulidae) near the center of the inflorescence. Photo credit: Christopher Waters
February 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Sacred #lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (#Nelumbonaceae), is thermogenic. Most heat is produced in the receptacle, but stamens & tepals also become warm. Carbohydrates “burn” via alternative oxidase (AOX) & generate heat. #Nitidulidae beetles are pollinators. #thermogensis #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Composite plate of thermal images and natural light photos. Thermal images show the receptacle, tepal base and stamens are hot relative to the rest of the flower and ambient. From: Grant, N.M. et al. 2010. Distribution of thermogenic activity in floral tissues of Nelumbo nucifera. Functional Plant Biology 37: 1085–1095. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP10024
February 20, 2024 at 12:29 PM
respublications.bsky.social
In a new #RESSystematicEnt article, subfamily Calonecrinae (#Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Nitidulidae) is revised to include six species🪲

See the systematics and natural history🔽
doi.org/10.1111/syen.12671
#beetles #systematics
@gkergoat.bsky.social @lepidochrysops.bsky.social @wiley.com
Graphical abstract of: Revision of subfamily Calonecrinae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Nitidulidae) systematics and natural history of a mysterious group
March 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Dasgupta et al. A #NewSpecies of Carpophilus Stephens ( #Coleoptera: #Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) from Tirap District, Arunachal Pradesh, India doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #SapBeetles #TheColeopteristsBulletin
Carpophilus (Ecnomorphus) krishnae, new species, male holotype. 1) Dorsal habitus; 2) Ventral habitus. Spiculum gastrale: 3) Photo; 4) Sketch. Anal sclerite: 5) Photo; 6) Sketch. Aedeagus ventrally: 7) Photo; 8) Sketch. Aedeagus laterally: 9) Photo; 10) Sketch.
March 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Zhao et al. A Cretaceous sap beetle with specialized mandibles ( #Coleoptera : #Nitidulidae) doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #Beetle #Beetles #SapBeetles #SapBeetles #Fossils
Figure 1. Photomicrographs of Vetunitidula mandibulata gen. et sp. nov. (NIGP203942) and a stenurothripid thrips from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber; under normal reflected light. (a) Dorsal view. (b) Ventral view. (c) Dorsal view of thrips (cf. Didymothrips abdominalis Guo et al.). Scale bars: 1 mm in (a, b) and 0.2 mm in (c).
April 22, 2025 at 4:23 AM
americanbeetles.bsky.social
I think maybe Nitidulidae, sap beetles? Something like Cychramus?
May 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Lee et al. Revision of subfamily Calonecrinae ( #Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: #Nitidulidae) systematics and natural history of a mysterious group doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #NewSpecies #SapBeetles #Taxonomy
Adult habitus of Calonecrus. (a) Calonecrus wallacei Thomson; (b) C. laticollis Murray; (c) C. rufipes Pascoe (lectotype); (d) C. mindanaoensis sp. nov. (holotype); (e) C. pubescens Kirejtshuk (holotype); (f) C. jendeki Jelínek (paratype of the dorsum and non-type specimen of the ventrum) (1: dorsum, 2: ventrum, 3: tegmen, 4: median lobe of aedeagus, 5: labels).
February 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
charlesgardener.bsky.social
Possibly a variety of pollen beetle. There are, it seems, quite a lot of them and not just the shiny black ones which go for anything yellow.

coleoptera.org.uk/family/nitid...
Nitidulidae | UK Beetle Recording
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June 21, 2026 at 10:38 AM
vc40ladybirds.bsky.social
Think it’s one of the Nitidulidae, but I find them challenging! 😬
April 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
thatonecreature.bsky.social
Some kind of sap beetle, Nitidulidae. The photo was taken last year in Poland.
I believe this may be Glischrochilus quadrisignatus. This species does seem to have been introduced into Europe so the location makes sense.

#beetle #coleoptera #insect #bug #entomology
A photo of a small black beetle. The beetle has four light yellow spots on its elytra. It has black antenna with round, clubbed ends. The beetle's hind wings are slightly sticking out from under its elytra. The beetle is resting on the floor of a plastic container.
February 17, 2026 at 10:49 AM
peterbrash.bsky.social
Nothing springs immediately to mind. It might be in the Nitidulidae though.
December 21, 2024 at 3:16 PM