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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Shining Leaf Chafers (Rutelinae) » Anomalini » Anomala » Oriental Beetle (Anomala orientalis)
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Beetles_0034 - Anomala orientalis - male
Copyright © 2008 Steve Nanz

Beetles_0034 - Anomala orientalis - Male
Ridgewood Reservoir, Queens, Queens County, New York, USA
June 27, 2008
Cyclocephala borealis and Anomala orientalis?
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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 10 October, 2008 - 5:30pm
Last updated 28 October, 2008 - 12:57pm

yes. caught in the act of sensless misagenation
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… v belov, 10 October, 2008 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

 
LOL!
Well, maybe the offspring will fly back overseas where they belong:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 October, 2008 - 7:28pm login or register to post comments

 
What offspring?
Aren't these both males?
… Domingo Zungri, 10 October, 2008 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

 
yes they are... i'm not going there...
[another possibility being YY-chromosome progeny... won't work in beetles, though]
… v belov, 10 October, 2008 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

 
NYC Parks
So Cyclocephala borealis is the correct ID for the bigger fellow? I'd be interested to know how to tell C. borealis from others in the genus.

I have found both behaviors to be not uncommon in NYC Parks.

FYI - I googled "misagenation" because I wasn't sure of the definition. This page was the first record in the search! It's spelled "miscegenation".

(Let me know if this has become inappropriate for BugGuide, I'll frass the image.)
… Steve Nanz, 11 October, 2008 - 3:53am login or register to post comments

 
thanx for correcting my spelling
(i only heard the word used once in O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
… v belov, 11 October, 2008 - 3:59am login or register to post comments

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