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February 2006. Several photos of insect were sent from a diagnostics lab in Bolivia. It appears they are interceptions from wooden boxes and ornamentals.
They were not indetified to species: the following information was provided:
Insects for identification (“insect found in wood container”): Coleoptera Latridiidae (lower, right)
insects for identification1 (“insect found in wood container”): Coleoptera Cerambycidae (top, left)
insects for identification2 (“insect found in wood container”): Coleoptera Curculionidae Scolytinae (top, right)
insects for identification3 (“Coccinellidae found in ornamentalplants”): Hemiptera Coccoidea ?Pseudococcidae (lower, left)
