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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae) » Ironclad Beetles (Zopherinae) » Zopherini » Phloeodes » Diabolical Ironclad Beetle (Phloeodes diabolicus)
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Zopherid - Phloeodes diabolicus
Copyright © 2007 Will Chatfield-Taylor

Zopherid - Phloeodes diabolicus
Bannister Park, Sacramento County, California, USA
December 27, 2007
Size: 16mm
Some unknown Zopherid. I can't figure out what genus or species it is. The pattern is pretty distinctive though.
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Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 28 December, 2007 - 12:53pm
Last updated 30 December, 2007 - 10:51pm

The one I kept is still alive.
I wish I had a mate for it. At least some of my tenebs from Fair Oaks and Cool have been cranking out babies like mad.
… Jim McClarin, 2 August, 2008 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

Probably
Phloeodes.
… Brad Barnd, 28 December, 2007 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

 
looks like
P. diabolicus
… Phillip Harpootlian, 28 December, 2007 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Cool
Thanks a lot, for some reason I didn't come across P. diabolicus with that pattern. Maybe the photos I found just weren't very good
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 28 December, 2007 - 5:00pm login or register to post comments

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