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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cucujoidea » Erotylid series » Cryptic Slime Mold Beetles (Sphindidae) » Cryptic Slime Mold Beetles (Sphindus) » Sphindus americanus
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Sphindidae, Cryptic Slime Mold Beetle, dorsal - Sphindus americanus
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Sphindidae, Cryptic Slime Mold Beetle, dorsal - Sphindus americanus
Beard-Davidson Prairie, Clay County, South Dakota, USA
August 9, 2014
Size: 2 mm
sweep in a prairie reconstruction

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Sphindidae, Cryptic Slime Mold Beetle, dorsal - Sphindus americanus Sphindidae, antennae - Sphindus americanus Sphindidae, lateral - Sphindus americanus Sphindidae, frontal - Sphindus americanus Sphindidae, ventral - Sphindus americanus
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 19 December, 2014 - 7:15am

Moved
Moved from Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles.
… v belov, 19 December, 2014 - 7:19am login or register to post comments

 
I just knew
I should recognize this beetle. You just introduced me to it a year ago.
Rats. Slow learner!
… MJ Hatfield, 19 December, 2014 - 7:24am login or register to post comments

 
come on!
look, it's simply impossible to memorize all those cryptic, nondescript small brown beetles that hardly ever show up on live plants, especially if you deal mostly with fauna of open areas and associated with herbaceous vegetation
… v belov, 19 December, 2014 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

 
Nice try.
The bar is set kind of high as you manage to know many! of them.
… MJ Hatfield, 19 December, 2014 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

 
i kinda do but that's my thing
keep in mind that i'm a total/subtotal stranger to most major groups of herbivorous insects and their parasites/parasitoids
… v belov, 19 December, 2014 - 12:38pm login or register to post comments

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