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comb-clawed beetle - Capnochroa fuliginosa
Copyright © 2004 tom murray

comb-clawed beetle - Capnochroa fuliginosa
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
July 10, 2004
Could this be a comb-clawed beetle, Androchirus sp., family Tenebrionidae ?
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Contributed by tom murray on 4 April, 2005 - 8:01pm
Last updated 13 February, 2006 - 8:22pm

Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae: Capnochroa fuliginosa
The short, nearly blunt basolateral pronotal angles place this as a Capnochroa.
… Donald S. Chandler, 13 February, 2006 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

Not Tenebrionidae. It's a co
Not Tenebrionidae. It's a comb-clawed beetle, but comb-clawed beetles are in Alleculidae.
… Jim McClarin, 29 April, 2005 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Despite its being termed a "s
Despite its being termed a "seriously flawed work" by some, everybody here seems to be using the hefty "American Beetles," Arnett et al. I am accustomed to seeing Tenebrionidae and Alleculidae treated as separate and distinct families. I retract my prior comment.

I also retract this comment concerning "American Beetles," which I might have confused with another book Arnett co-authored.
… Jim McClarin, 30 April, 2005 - 4:30am login or register to post comments

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