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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles (Cleroidea) » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Hydnocerinae » Isohydnocera » Isohydnocera aegra
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Odd Beetle - Isohydnocera aegra
Copyright © 2007 Ray Simpson

Odd Beetle - Isohydnocera aegra
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
July 15, 2007
Size: 3mm
Longhorn? Cleriid? Soldier Beetle?
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Contributed by Ray Simpson on 16 July, 2007 - 12:12am
Last updated 22 January, 2009 - 8:53am

under revision, but "aegra" by current literature
Newman's (1840) type specimens (based on Barr's type slides) of "aegra" actually have tri-vittae'd pronota even though he fails to mention this in his descritpion, instead suggesting that it is an entirely pale testaceous species much like I. brunnea from the western US.
This is, in my humble opinion, either a new species OR an eastern set of records (as I have numerous FL records) for I. brunnea.
This opinion is still fledgling as I have no specimens of I. brunnea at my disposal as of yet and I have not drawn genitalia yet, as I plan to do.
… John Leavengood, 19 March, 2009 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Isohydnocera.
… Jim McClarin, 22 January, 2009 - 8:53am login or register to post comments

Isohydnocera aegra (Newman, 1840)
Jacques Rifkind det.
… v belov, 22 January, 2009 - 8:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Checkered Beetles.
… Ray Simpson, 18 July, 2007 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

Cleridae
Just off hand, I'd say this looks like a new sp. of Isohydnocera, maybe aegra for the guide. Certain about family though.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 16 July, 2007 - 7:49am login or register to post comments

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