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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Marsh Beetles (Scirtidae) » Flea Marsh Beetles (Ora) » Ora texana

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Copyright © 2008 Mike Quinn

Ora texana Champion - Ora texana

Bentsen-RGV State Park, Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
October 17, 2008
Size: ~5 mm

Det. J. H. Epler, 2009

at UV lights just north of the levee...

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 14 November, 2008 - 6:45pm
Last updated 1 July, 2021 - 12:56pm

Moved

oops, ... back to texana. After a review of the original literature on this mess, it is clear that I based my concept of Ora hyacintha Blatchley on mis-ID’d specimens. Any past references I made to Ora hyacintha in Texas are in error.

… Ed Riley, 2 February, 2011 - 11:25am

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Moved

Moved from Ora texana.

… Ed Riley, 1 February, 2011 - 4:49pm

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Moved

Moved from Flea Marsh Beetles.

… Mike Quinn, 12 April, 2009 - 8:09am

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Ora texana

This is most likely Ora texana - note the faint, apparent 3 transverse bands across the elytra. Coloration in the genus Ora can be somewhat variable, especially in O. troberti, but those 3 bands almost always indicate O. texana.

Scirtidae is one of the most poorly known of the subaquatic beetle families; all the genera are in great need of revision, and it appears that I'm crazy enough to start describing some of the undescribed buggers in Cyphon ... soon ... after I get out of the asylum ... :-)

… J. H. Epler, 11 April, 2009 - 2:44pm

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Ora troberti ??

Thanks for the familial correction. Apparently this is O. troberti and not O. texana per their respective ranges stated in "American Beetles" (1) and a few other references.

Ora texana - FL-GA (??)
Ora troberti - FL, TX

… Mike Quinn, 15 November, 2008 - 9:44am

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For some reason I'm thinking

Genus Ora, in the Scirtidae. Anybody else?

… Skip Blanchard, 14 November, 2008 - 7:05pm

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spectacular! must be Ora indeed

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… v belov, 14 November, 2008 - 8:08pm

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I also was reminded

of Scirtidae due to the (faint) vestiture and the jutting angle of the rear "knees."

… Jim McClarin, 14 November, 2008 - 8:03pm

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