Teneb - Doliodesmus charlesi

no more missing genera in the Diaperinae -- yaay!!

Moved from Tenebrioninae.

… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 5:01pm

not having a bloody clue feels so nice

antennae so thin, prothorax so transverse, dorsum so shiny...

… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 11:38am

Yes, the whole thing

was very shiny, very fast. I have an inkling and will try to reach some teneb folks to find out ..

… margarethe brummermann, 27 July, 2015 - 2:29pm

i e-mailed Warren Steiner right away

… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 2:41pm

Thanks!

… margarethe brummermann, 27 July, 2015 - 2:46pm

How about Doliodesmus charlesi?

http://symbiota4.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=13671575

… margarethe brummermann, 27 July, 2015 - 4:24pm

totally makes sense!

made my day, Margarete -- thank you ever so much for the great addition and sleuthing work

… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 5:03pm

If it's correct, it's really funny

because - I was at a bug party with one of your teneb specialists and showed him a beetle from the black light the night before. He wrote down the above species as an id. Then I took the beetle under the scope and saw that it was a carabid, not a teneb. You probably saw my post. When I did laundry a week later, I found the slip of paper that he wrote in my shirt pocket. I felt like a real senior moment that I had no teneb that it fit with, until I finally found the image on the web and realized and remembered that it had been written for the similar looking carabid. So when I yesterday saw the teneb under my porch light, I was reminded of the carabid and the rather bad teneb photo on SCAN. So no sleuthing, really, more (may I say it, female) intuition.

… margarethe brummermann, 27 July, 2015 - 8:28pm

wow my friend

world is full of miracle and wonder, isn't it

… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 8:36pm

Yes! and just what I needed

to cheer me up tonight

… margarethe brummermann, 27 July, 2015 - 9:12pm

it did cheer me up, that's for sure

has a borgesian quality to it, don't you think?

… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 9:31pm

I tried to tell the story to my husband

but although he loves reading pieces by Borges to me (we both love his work) I did not manage to get the charm of this adventure across. I guess it's insider borgesian

… margarethe brummermann, 27 July, 2015 - 11:59pm

insider's fine

let's keep things just borgesian enough to get by

… v belov, 28 July, 2015 - 12:47am