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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae) » Oedemerinae » Asclerini » Oxycopis » Oxycopis mimetica
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false blister beetle - Oxycopis mimetica
Copyright © 2006 Charles Schurch Lewallen

false blister beetle - Oxycopis mimetica
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
May 24, 2006
The elytra look like fire fly but the pronotum and head don't (to me).
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 24 May, 2006 - 12:08pm
Last updated 6 June, 2009 - 9:15pm

Oxycopis mimetica Horn 1896
Tentative ID backed by Matthew L. Gimmel of Louisiana State Arthropod Museum who kindly compared the image with IDed specimens

Moved from False Blister Beetles.
… v belov, 6 June, 2009 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

Oedemeridae.
Very nice image of one of the "false blister beetles" in the family Oedemeridae. You might check our guide pages to see if we have this genus yet.
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 May, 2006 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

 
false blister beetle
Thanks Eric, will do.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 24 May, 2006 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

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