Lioligus nitidus | Sitka Nature https://www.sitkanature.org On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place Tue, 22 Feb 2022 06:44:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cropped-raven_trees_watermark_8.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lioligus nitidus | Sitka Nature https://www.sitkanature.org 32 32 20990835 Gold Beetle (Lioligus nitidus) https://www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/2010/08/06/gold-beetle-lioligus-nitidus/ https://www.sitkanature.org/photojournal/2010/08/06/gold-beetle-lioligus-nitidus/#respond Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:47:16 +0000 http://www.sitkanature.org/?p=3441 This photo is from a hike up Indian River in 2006. I noticed a metallic gold beetle crawling on the zipper of my backpack while stopped for a break. Only recently did I get around to posting it on bugguide.net, where it was quickly identified as Lioligus nitidus by v belov, who noted it was ... Read more

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This photo is from a hike up Indian River in 2006. I noticed a metallic gold beetle crawling on the zipper of my backpack while stopped for a break. Only recently did I get around to posting it on bugguide.net, where it was quickly identified as Lioligus nitidus by v belov, who noted it was a new genus for the site.

Looking on-line, I found very little about this beetle, but I did find one paper about a study done on Prince of Wales Island where this species was one of many invertebrates found in alder leaf litter. (That study was looking at diversity/productivity of conifer and alders, with a mind toward the management of second growth, and whether alder should discouraged, as it has been in past years, or encouraged.)

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