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Contrasting Body Shapes - _TNY_9733

Here's a pair of beetles who, though they are sharing a nice and tasty thistle really don't share much in appearanace.

 

The long and narrow one on top which looks a bit angry is a male Anastrangalia sanguinolenta flower longhorn beetle and the small and round one is a Cychramus luteus, a member of the sap beetles, Nitidulidae.

 

The scientific name "sanguiolenta" means full of blood and ais a reference to the red elytra of the female.

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Uploaded on September 13, 2020
Taken on July 8, 2019