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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Stenochiinae » Cnodalonini » Alobates
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darkling beetle Eleodes? - Alobates
Copyright © 2017 angella moorehouse

darkling beetle Eleodes? - Alobates
Allerton Park, Piatt County, Illinois, USA
May 18, 2017
Found on night lighting sheet on lawn of 4H camp. Looks very similar to the desert stink beetles I've seen in New Mexico but it seems out of range for Illinois.
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Contributed by angella moorehouse on 21 May, 2017 - 8:11am
Last updated 24 May, 2017 - 7:14pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 24 May, 2017 - 7:14pm login or register to post comments

Alobates. Either A. pensylvan
Alobates. Either A. pensylvanica or A. molitor. You can tell the difference because A. molitor has a tuft of yellow hair under its head, while A. pensylvanica does not.
… aspen89, 21 May, 2017 - 11:07am login or register to post comments

 
you mean, morio, i suspect -- not molitor
… v belov, 22 May, 2017 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

Alobates?
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