Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Beetles that pollinate, 1 by johnpeten

johnpeten wrote:
Many epiphytes and other plants that live in the jungle have "Flowers" that do not attract butterflies etc to pollinate them. The reproductive devices are sometimes called naked flowers. They rely on beetles. I caught a flower on one of my vines Syngonium podophyllum (arrowhead vine) when the spathe had just opened revealing the "Pistil" and the beetles had started work. Somewhere during my research I had come across the name of the beetle but now cannot find the reference. Anybody have any ideas.