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cool burrowing beetle - Pangaeus bilineatus

cool burrowing beetle - Pangaeus bilineatus
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, USA
May 23, 2009
Size: less than 10 mm?
He flew off before I measured. He has the coolest semi-clear gold at the bottom of his/her elytra-found under brick

Moved tentatively
Moved from Burrowing Bugs.

look in Cydnidae [no beetle]
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even cooler
A true bug, even cooler. Now to decide between pangaeus, melanethus, etc.

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