I’m a maniac with a camera, anything I see gets photographed no matter where I am or what is going on.

I mainly identify Erotylidae, with most of my knowledge in Megalodacne. I'm currently trying to work through the Megalodacne of Africa right now, so if you live in Africa and want to give me a little more to work with, go look around Ganoderma mushrooms for Megalodacne. For identification of Erotylidae, a photo of the top AND a photo of the underside of the beetle is best, and if you want to really up your chances of getting your observation to species, get some photos of the top, side, underside, pronotum (top of thorax), antennae, head, prosternum (underside of thorax), side view of prosternum, legs, and coxae (where the legs meet the abdomen). With upwards of a few thousand Erotylidae species in the world, there's a lot iNat still needs to have added, so go out there and investigate those mushrooms!

Feel free to tag me on any Erotylidae observation you want identified, I love seeing new Erotylidae observations added to iNaturalist.

I must add, I'm no expert, and am completely self-taught using resources online, so I may be wrong (I do take some risks in my IDing)

As far as my observations go, if you need any extra info or extra photos, please ask and I can usually provide.

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