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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Sand-loving Scarab Beetles (Ochodaeidae)
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blond Sand-loving Scarab?
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

blond Sand-loving Scarab?
Organ Mountains foothills, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
August 6, 2006
Size: about 4.5 mm
This it the lightest-colored and widest (per length) of the bristly, prognathous scaraboids I brought back unphotographed from last year's collecting/photography trip to southern New Mexico. It came to UV lights on greasewood/mesquite/cactus incline below jagged spires of the Organ Mountains, a somewhat more desertified site than my Aug. 9 location on this trip.

This image is actually two that are merged to obtain better range of focus.

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blond Sand-loving Scarab? blond Sand-loving Scarab?
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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 24 August, 2007 - 8:16pm
Last updated 26 August, 2007 - 10:59am

3rd sp.
and an unusual one at that. Great job.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 25 August, 2007 - 7:01pm login or register to post comments

you're amazing
new family AND multiple species. Congrats, and thanks for sharing the fruits of your efforts!
… Tim R. Moyer, 24 August, 2007 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Amazing, yes,
for having sat on them all this time because I had supposedly more interesting beetles to shoot :-) Takes a special type. Rhymes with Once.
… Jim McClarin, 24 August, 2007 - 11:53pm login or register to post comments

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