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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Nemognathinae » Nemognathini » Nemognatha » subgenus Pronemognatha (Nemognatha subgenus Pronemognatha) » Nemognatha selanderi
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Look-alike for Batyle ignicollis - Nemognatha selanderi
Copyright © 2017 Steven Mlodinow

Look-alike for Batyle ignicollis - Nemognatha selanderi
Neenoshe Reservoir, Kiowa County, Colorado, USA
August 13, 2017
In disturbed area near tamarisk, cottonwoods, weeds, and ag fields in area that was naturally shortgrass prairie. Looks like Batyle ignicollis but the rear corners of pronotum are pointed, not rounded and the folded elytra seem a tad broader. So ???
On Agaloma/Euphorbia marginata

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Contributed by Steven Mlodinow on 14 August, 2017 - 9:19pm
Last updated 6 June, 2023 - 9:19am

Moved
Moved from Pseudozonitis possibly-undescribed.

Sorry for the back-and-forth.
Species probably new for CO, shortness of galeae suggestive for Pseudozonitis indeed.
… Boris Büche, 6 June, 2023 - 9:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Nemognathini.
… Boris Büche, 6 June, 2023 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Nemognathini.
… Boris Büche, 6 June, 2023 - 5:43am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Gnathium francilloni.

Galeae not protruding much beyond mandibles. In Gnathium francilloni (and probably all members of genus), galeae much longer:

Might be Pseudozonitis?
… Boris Büche, 10 October, 2021 - 10:23am login or register to post comments

 
Genus
There are, apparently, no records for any Pseudozonitis in Colorado, and no members of that genus in BugGuide resemble this individual. No Zonitis in BugGuide looks like this individual, either. Is it possible that the galeae are somehow hidden in these photos?
… Steven Mlodinow, 10 October, 2021 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Gnathium.
… Steven Mlodinow, 15 August, 2017 - 8:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 15 August, 2017 - 8:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Gnathium francilloni
Seems the only viable ID.
In the review of North American Gnathium by Pinto (2009), G. francilloni is the only Gnathium with this color pattern. Records in his article approach se. CO (where this individual was photographed closely, and there are records from CO in BugGuide.

Pinto (2009). A taxonomic review of the genus Gnathium Kirby (Coleoptera: Meloidae).
Transactions of the American Entomological Society 135:1-58.

It is possible that I missed something in perusing this article, but I think I got this right
… Steven Mlodinow, 15 August, 2017 - 8:57pm login or register to post comments

Meloidae
… Brad Barnd, 14 August, 2017 - 10:01pm login or register to post comments

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