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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Amphidorini » Desert Stink Beetles (Eleodes) » subgenus Melaneleodes (Eleodes subgenus Melaneleodes) » Eleodes tricostata
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Beetle, dorsal - Eleodes tricostata
Copyright © 2016 Edward L. Ruden

Beetle, dorsal - Eleodes tricostata
Lincoln National Forest, Guadalupe Ranger District, Eddy County, New Mexico, USA
August 5, 2015
Size: 18.0 mm
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This beetle came to a mercury vapor lamp set-up on 05 August 2015 in Turkey Canyon at 5400 ft. elevation on Forest Road 527, Lincoln National Forest, Guadalupe Ranger District within Queen 7.5 minute quadrangle, Eddy Co., NM. Several other insect images from this event are posted.

This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 80 images with a 169 µm step taken with a Nikon 200mm F/4 AF-D ED-IF Micro Nikkor macro set to F/4 + Nikon D810 camera.

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 24 December, 2016 - 9:11pm
Last updated 25 December, 2016 - 7:49pm

Moved
Moved from Darkling Beetles.

Thanks, Blaine. It keys to this species in Triplehorn and Thomas 2011(1)
… Edward L. Ruden, 24 December, 2016 - 10:35pm login or register to post comments

Hmmm...how about Eleodes tricostatus?
… Blaine Mathison, 24 December, 2016 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

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