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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Shining Leaf Chafers (Rutelinae) » Rutelini » Paracotalpa
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Shining Leaf Chafer (Paracotalpa granicollis)??? - Paracotalpa
Copyright © 2015 Richard Bledsoe

Shining Leaf Chafer (Paracotalpa granicollis)??? - Paracotalpa
Mission Trails Regional Park, San Diego County, California, USA
April 5, 2011
Size: About same as fig beetle
I don't see these on your map for California and am therefore unsure of my ID of this beetle. It was feeding on a yellowish mass of decaying plant material, I do not know what the food was.

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Shining Leaf Chafer (Paracotalpa granicollis)??? - Paracotalpa Shining Leaf Chafer (Paracotalpa granicollis)??? - Paracotalpa
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Contributed by Richard Bledsoe on 30 August, 2015 - 4:58pm

Paracotalpa ursina
Gentlemen it looks like you have Paracotalpa ursina or something very close for that Date ,Locality and Appearance . Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving ! Gene St. Denis Sierra Nevada Research
… Gene St. Denis, 24 November, 2016 - 9:24am login or register to post comments

Moved
Let's leave at the genus level until a scarab expert can confirm the species; San Diego county seems a bit south for granicollis

Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 30 August, 2015 - 5:12pm login or register to post comments

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