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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Epicautini » Epicauta » subgenus Epicauta (Epicauta subgenus Epicauta) » Caviceps Group (Epicauta Caviceps Group)

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Copyright © 2010 margarethe brummermann

Epicauta ryleri? - Epicauta

Little Outfit Ranch south of Canelo Pass, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
October 14, 2010
Size: 8 mm

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Epicauta ryleri? - Epicauta

Epicauta ryleri? - Epicauta

Epicauta ryleri? - Epicauta

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 16 October, 2010 - 6:50pm
Last updated 29 July, 2011 - 5:42am

Moved

Moved from subgenus Epicauta.

… v belov, 29 July, 2011 - 5:42am

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Moved

Moved from Epicauta.

… v belov, 24 October, 2010 - 2:50pm

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from J.D. Pinto: "Either E. rileyi or E. caviceps.

"...Can't see diameter of pit next to eye, nor the outline of the occiput. E. rileyi has a much larger pit than caviceps and caviceps has a rather concave occiput at the midline. My 1991 key (couplet 93) separating members of this species group has a dumb error - giving the occiput as convex in both parts of the couplet - it should be 'concave' in the second half."

… v belov, 23 October, 2010 - 6:35pm

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Epicauta

Cannot quite completely key this specimen out without seeing underside. But, I am not sure this is E. rileyi. Enlarging the image, I do not see such a prominent pit around the eye. Without seeing the underside of the abdomen and the hind tibial spurs, I am leaning towards E. caviceps.

… Blaine Mathison, 17 October, 2010 - 11:00am

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That was my second option.

I'll shoot the underside if I still have an unpinned one in the freezer

… margarethe brummermann, 17 October, 2010 - 12:54pm

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frontal shot

please try to add a front-on shot of the face/head; if a pit is above the eye it may be better seen from that perspective. Thanks!

… Blaine Mathison, 17 October, 2010 - 1:20pm

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… margarethe brummermann, 16 October, 2010 - 7:10pm

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