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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Fire-Colored Beetles (Pyrochroidae) » Pedilinae » Pedilus » Pedilus elegans
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Black beetle - Pedilus elegans
Copyright © 2009 Mike Silva

Black beetle - Pedilus elegans
Woodstock, Oxford, Ontario, Canada
June 4, 2009
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Contributed by Mike Silva on 25 December, 2009 - 4:55pm
Last updated 4 January, 2010 - 11:27am

thanks much, Dan, for helping us with this tough group
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 4 January, 2010 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

Pedilus elegans (Hentz) - male
The full-sized image gave me a better look at the tarsi - it is an adult male of Pedilus elegans (Hentz). Thanks, Vasily.
… Dr. Daniel K. Young, 4 January, 2010 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

Pedilus???
challenging angle, and i lean towards male P. canaliculatus (LeConte), although his pronotal punctures look too coarse
… v belov, 25 December, 2009 - 6:01pm login or register to post comments

 
from Dan Young:
"a real challenge -- I suppose it could possibly be Pedilus, but what I can see of the tarsi suggests also something in the cerambycid-chrysomelid camp. There are some lepturiines that have a similar look and also a few chrysomelids. I just can't see enough of the salient features to make an informed call. [...] And what about those voucher specimens in a collection somewhere - can this subject really not be strongly considered for buggguide as an operational request? We are building quite a library of some pretty unusual beasties. To not have bodies in a collection somewhere is, as I have mentioned several times previously, not only a real shame, but also a bad practice."
… v belov, 2 January, 2010 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

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