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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Byrrhoidea » Variegated Mud-loving Beetles (Heteroceridae) » Augyles » Augyles auromicans
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Centuriatus auromicans - Augyles auromicans
Copyright © 2011 Brad Barnd

Centuriatus auromicans - Augyles auromicans
Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
May 23, 2007
Size: 4 mm
Beautiful golden setae, very different from other heterocerids I've collected. New species for guide.

Collected at UV light.
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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 12 April, 2011 - 12:27am
Last updated 28 June, 2016 - 2:54pm

What's it smell like?
With that name it should be aromatic, shouldn't it?
… Jim McClarin, 12 April, 2011 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

 
I dunno
Smells like dead bug to me. :)
… Brad Barnd, 12 April, 2011 - 7:00pm login or register to post comments

nice addition!
agree with v - nice :)

looks like it has a light stripe (in the ground color) down the middle of pronotum? That would sure be different.

UPDATE: Just checked Pacheco's ref. for the species, and near as I can translate it begins with "Body color reddish brown, pronotum with 5 longitudinal light bands, one on each side and a central"
… Tim Moyer, 12 April, 2011 - 1:11pm login or register to post comments

 
yes
Pronotum has a central light band with the margins pale as well.
… Brad Barnd, 12 April, 2011 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

very nice addition
… v belov, 12 April, 2011 - 7:21am login or register to post comments

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