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Burrowing Bugs - Pangaeus bilineatus
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Burrowing Bugs - Pangaeus bilineatus
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
July 14, 2009
Are these Pangaeus bilineatus same sex? If not, could they possibly be a couple?
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 15 July, 2009 - 9:15am
Last updated 9 August, 2009 - 6:53am

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Moved from ID Request.
… Beatriz Moisset, 9 August, 2009 - 6:53am login or register to post comments

Not beetles.
Don't know the answer to your question (though I'd bet you are correct on the sexual dimorphism), but these are burrower bugs, not beetles (and you got the Latin name correct, so....?).
… Eric R. Eaton, 15 July, 2009 - 9:38am login or register to post comments

 
Memory's Coming Back
I had tagged 'beetle" back when I thought a beetle.



Now you have refreshed my memory, the odds of being different sex seem better. Beetle hind-ends would look different.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 15 July, 2009 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

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