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Please like my new #macrophotography of the #beetle #Valgus #hemipterus (#Scarabaeidae) with a #phoretic #mite (Mesostigmata) on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxdgiRMZHS5NhtynMbH7YIQOR0_FTXkTw-?si=BosP-BDJIguyhnYF
The photo clearly shows the dense #scaling of the #pronotum, serving, i.a., for camouflage. But how generally can the link between selective pressure and #evolutionaryradiation in #scarabbeetles be reconstructed? (See Y. Tong et al.,2024).
©#StefanFWirth,#BerlinReference
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06250-1#Photo
© S.F.Wirth; edited in July 2026 -
Please like my new #macrophotography of the #beetle #Valgus #hemipterus (#Scarabaeidae) with a #phoretic #mite (Mesostigmata) on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxdgiRMZHS5NhtynMbH7YIQOR0_FTXkTw-?si=BosP-BDJIguyhnYF
The photo clearly shows the dense #scaling of the #pronotum, serving, i.a., for camouflage. But how generally can the link between selective pressure and #evolutionaryradiation in #scarabbeetles be reconstructed? (See Y. Tong et al.,2024).
©#StefanFWirth,#BerlinReference
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06250-1#Photo
© S.F.Wirth; edited in July 2026 -
The beetle #Valgus #hemipterus is a not very rare inhabitant of Southern Europe and #CentralEurope. The #specimen shown here flew onto my windowsill in #Berlin. It harbored unidentified #mites of the #Uropodina and of #Laelapidae with the latter having conspicuous strongly developed chelicerae. The Uropodinae are #phoretic and Laelapidae either phoretic or facultatively #parasitic.©#StefanFWirth
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The beetle #Valgus #hemipterus is a not very rare inhabitant of Southern Europe and #CentralEurope. The #specimen shown here flew onto my windowsill in #Berlin. It harbored unidentified #mites of the #Uropodina and of #Laelapidae with the latter having conspicuous strongly developed chelicerae. The Uropodinae are #phoretic and Laelapidae either phoretic or facultatively #parasitic.©#StefanFWirth
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https://ko-fi.com/sfwirth#Photos
©S.F.Wirth