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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Edrotini » Hylocrinus
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Blapstinus ? - Hylocrinus
Copyright © 2016 Hartmut Wisch

Blapstinus ? - Hylocrinus
Eaton Canyon Natural Area, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, USA
February 9, 2016
Size: 6 mm
Found beneath exfoliating bark of Platanus racemosa.
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 21 February, 2016 - 5:49pm
Last updated 17 February, 2023 - 10:13pm

Moved
Moved from Chilometopon.
… Christopher C Wirth, 17 February, 2023 - 10:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Edrotini.
… Christopher C Wirth, 27 January, 2019 - 8:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Christopher!
What do you think of this one? Also Chilometopon?
… Hartmut Wisch, 27 January, 2019 - 11:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Both best match Hylocrinus
While I can't see the frontal margin in this image the shape of the pronotum best matches Hylocrinus—apologies for my previous mix-up!
… Christopher C Wirth, 17 February, 2023 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Christopher -
Will take a look at the specimen, also the other one.
… Hartmut Wisch, 18 February, 2023 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Darkling Beetles.
… v belov, 22 April, 2017 - 10:57pm login or register to post comments

maybe Metoponium or thereabouts
… Blaine Mathison, 21 February, 2016 - 5:55pm login or register to post comments

 
How about...
Steriphanus sp.? Just tapping in the dark.
… Hartmut Wisch, 4 March, 2016 - 7:51pm login or register to post comments

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