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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Centronopini » Centronopus » Centronopus calcaratus
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Beetle - Centronopus calcaratus
Copyright © 2007 Steve Kortum

Beetle - Centronopus calcaratus
Busch Conservation Area, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA
August 4, 2007
Size: ~30 mm
Beetle. Feeding on rotting wood?
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Contributed by Steve Kortum on 14 August, 2007 - 6:33pm
Last updated 24 December, 2013 - 6:40pm

Moved tentatively
Moved from Tenebrioninae.
… v belov, 24 December, 2013 - 6:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tenebrioninae.
… Kojun Kanda, 25 September, 2007 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

 
[withdrawn, sorry]
*
… v belov, 22 December, 2009 - 10:33am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tenebrioninae.
… Kojun Kanda, 25 September, 2007 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Darkling Beetles.
… Kojun Kanda, 25 September, 2007 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

Darkling Beetle
Family Tenebrionidae
… Jim McClarin, 14 August, 2007 - 8:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the help. :)
Thanks for the help. :)
… Steve Kortum, 15 August, 2007 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Kojun Kanda should be able
to give you a closer ID. If IDs are important to you, shoot the beetle from many views and in good lighting. Sometimes very minor details need to be seen (underside, head, terminal sternite, elytral apex, antennae, etc.) in order to key the specimen.
… Jim McClarin, 15 August, 2007 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

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