Melasis buprestoides (Linnaeus, 1761)
a false click beetle
Melasis buprestoides(Linnaeus, 1761) - a false click beetle, Male - head and thorax - dorsal view - highly enlarged - grey background

Image 0012: Male - head and thorax - dorsal view - highly enlarged - grey background

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Magnification macro-photographmacro-photograph
Background grey background
Equipment used Canon EOS400D dSLR and MP-E 65mm x1 to x5 macro lens
Magnification factor x2
Photographer Malcolm Storey
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Image Reference P68749
Found as Imago
Date 20 May 2007
OS grid ref TL88
Lat/Lon 52° 20' N, 0° 40' E
Location West Norfolk, VC28, England
Voucher 20 May 2007[J]
Record summary Several emerging from (or ovipositing in?) dead, decorticate patch on oak trunk
Associated organism on decorticate wood of Quercus
Return to Record page Melasis buprestoides on 20 May 2007 at TL88 in West Norfolk
Return to Taxon page Melasis buprestoides
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