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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae) » Oedemerinae » Asclerini » Oxacis
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beetle - Oxacis
Copyright © 2017 Dave Barker

beetle - Oxacis
29.797499, -100.998049, Val Verde County, Texas, USA
April 11, 2017
Size: ~ 2 cm in length
These come to my halogen lights in numbers, for the past month there usually are more than a hundred at the lights.
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Contributed by Dave Barker on 23 May, 2017 - 8:19pm
Last updated 23 May, 2017 - 9:34pm

Moved tentatively; tough group
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 23 May, 2017 - 9:34pm login or register to post comments

Reminds us of

but yours has more powdery white??
and they don't seem to be anywhere near 2cm ?
… john and jane balaban, 23 May, 2017 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

 
I think what I have
at my lights may be so powdery white because the ground is covered with a lot of white limestone dust. This one you have pointed out has the general body form, it's close, but I don't think it is quite right. The ones I'm seeing have gray-brown abdomens and heads rather than black. They are all about 2 cm long. They might be in Epicauta. As common as they are (I'm constantly pulling them out of my hair when I'm photographing moths) I have taken few pictures of them. Next time I'm out there I will take more and better pictures of them. Thanks very much for the ID.
… Dave Barker, 23 May, 2017 - 9:39pm login or register to post comments

 
at least 4 spp. of this tribe come to my porch lights
(none in big numbers, though -- perhaps a few dozen during an average night)

two, i know what they are; the rest, just a vague idea...

and there are no oedemerid experts in North America at this point
… v belov, 23 May, 2017 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

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