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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Brachypsectridae » Brachypsectra » Texas Beetle (Brachypsectra fulva)
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Texas Beetle larva - Brachypsectra fulva
Copyright © 2007 Jeff Gruber

Texas Beetle larva - Brachypsectra fulva
Santa Catalina Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
February 25, 2007
Collected under/in bark of large log in dry canyon wash.
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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 2 June, 2007 - 7:07pm
Last updated 6 June, 2007 - 12:34pm

Moved
Moved from Brachypsectra.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 5 June, 2007 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

Great work, Jeff!
I'll cross that family off my bugguide beetle family wish list :-) Now if you could get a series of shots of this little guy capturing and eating a spider, that would be quite something! Supposedly they first narcotize the spider with a chemical secretion.
… Jim McClarin, 2 June, 2007 - 8:05pm login or register to post comments

have shot of adult?
Moved
… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 June, 2007 - 7:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
great shot and new family for guide!
… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 June, 2007 - 7:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Yoo-hoo! :)
Jeff raised an issue that I need an opinion on in the Taxonomy Proposals forum, and you're just the one to answer it.
… Chuck Entz, 2 June, 2007 - 8:27pm login or register to post comments

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