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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Dead Log Beetles (Pythidae) » Pytho » Pytho niger
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teneral niger - Pytho niger
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

teneral niger - Pytho niger
Jefferson Notch area, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
May 25, 2007
Size: about 10 mm
If you found this beetle under some loose conifer bark you had just pried up, you might be tempted to rejoice at your unbelievable good fortune at finding a new Pytho species.

Backtrack to that word "unbelievable."

This is just a plain old black Pytho niger that hasn't colored up yet. It's freshly eclosed from its pupa stage. Collected as under-bark larva from one of several Jefferson Notch visits normalized as above date (May 25) and photographed Aug. 26, 2006.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 1 September, 2007 - 8:42pm

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