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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Edrotini » Edrotes » subgenus Edrotes (Edrotes subgenus Edrotes) » Edrotes ventricosus
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Edrotes - Edrotes ventricosus
Copyright © 2006 Martin Hauser

Edrotes - Edrotes ventricosus
Death Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
December 22, 2005
Found that nice beetle running around late December. It looks like an Edrotes, but maybe somebody can make a species ID or correct my generic placement.
Martin
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Contributed by Martin Hauser on 23 February, 2006 - 4:49pm
Last updated 22 December, 2014 - 1:29pm

Moved
Moved from Edrotes.
… v belov, 22 December, 2014 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

Edit
Corrected your location data so it doesn't say "Death Valley County"
… Chuck Entz, 26 February, 2006 - 6:21am login or register to post comments

Moved
to genus page.
… Jim McClarin, 25 February, 2006 - 12:53pm login or register to post comments

In that genus
It certainly does look like next of kin to the species already posted. I tried a google image search, coming up with nothing for Edrotes. It seems to take google several months to catch up with postings here.
… Jim McClarin, 23 February, 2006 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Edrotes/Google Images
Yes, on Google's site they mention somewhere how image cataloging is much slower than text cataloging. (The latter is updated very rapidly--I've seen it catch BugGuide pages in Recent within a day.)

So sometimes it is better to find images with a text search, for instance, a couple of images of Edrotes (leechi and ventricosus) from Arizona (linked from that page). E. ventricosus looks pretty close? Nearctica.com lists 4 spp. in genus. This collection lists E. ventricosus from California, Idaho, etc.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 23 February, 2006 - 9:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks like match.
It's probably OK to move to genus. Thanks for the Arizona link, Patrick. I hope they'll be able to complete their tenebrionid images.
… Jim McClarin, 24 February, 2006 - 5:14am login or register to post comments

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