Yesterday this teeny tiny critter caught my eye on a Mexican buckeye leaf. I snapped some photos for iNaturalist and discovered that it's a tumbling flower beetle by the scientific name of Paramordellaria carinata. It's a new species for my list. It also ups my tumbling flower beetle species to seven in our yard.
Entomologist Mike Quinn noted that it's a first for Blanco County on iNaturalist. (So was my recent Mecas marginella, a flat-faced longhorn beetle). I'm always excited to get a "first" in our county!
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