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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Pedinini » Platynotina » Asiopus
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Beetle - Asiopus
Copyright © 2007 Graham Montgomery

Beetle - Asiopus
Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA
May 7, 2007
Size: ~1 cm

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Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 18 May, 2007 - 10:47pm
Last updated 24 May, 2007 - 10:51am

Opatrinus
If you still have this critter, a lateral shot of the head to show the eye from the side would help get it to genus but based on appearance, I think this may be the genus that used to be called Opatrinus. The subfamily Opatrinae has a notch no the clypeus. The genus that used to be called Opatrinus (now a different name but can't recall off the top of my head) is characterized by not having the eyes copletely divided by an extension of the side of the head and having a stridulatory (sound producing) surface on the gula (underside middle of head). IF the eyes are completely divided, then this is Blapstinus.
… Kojun Kanda, 20 May, 2007 - 2:26am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the ID.
Unfortunately, I don't have him, but I did have a picture of the the head, but it's not from the side. Sorry!
… Graham Montgomery, 20 May, 2007 - 8:30am login or register to post comments

Tenebrioninidae
Kojun can no doubt name it further.
… Jim McClarin, 18 May, 2007 - 10:51pm login or register to post comments

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