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Dung Beetle? - Philolithus sordidus
Copyright © 2014 Steven Mlodinow

Dung Beetle? - Philolithus sordidus
Brett Gray Ranch near Punkin Center, Lincoln County, Colorado, USA
October 11, 2014
Size: 8-12 mm

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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 12 October, 2014 - 2:47pm
Last updated 12 January, 2022 - 12:02am

Moved
Moved from subgenus Glyptasida.
… I Fox, 12 January, 2022 - 12:02am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Glyptasida.
… v belov, 24 November, 2014 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

Glyptasida
G. costipennis? See http://insects.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/recordlist.php?-skip=4250&-max=25
Looking at Lockwood and Pollock 2009, Zootaxa 2023:1-27, G. costipennis is now considered a subspecies of G. sordida, though (at website above) the Harvard Dept of Entymology appears to keep costipennis as a separate species.
… Steven Mlodinow, 12 October, 2014 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 12 October, 2014 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

I would guess a Pimeliine Darkling Beetle instead
I would guess a Pimeliine Darkling Beetle instead (though I don't know which one).
… Peter Edelman, 12 October, 2014 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

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