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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Epitragini » Pechalius » Pechalius pilosus
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Pechalius pilosus
Copyright © 2017 Salvador Vitanza

Pechalius pilosus
Boca Chica, Cameron County, Texas, USA
August 29, 1972
Size: 11 mm
A new BG page?
August, 1972 (no specific date on label)
Determined by T.J. Spilman
This specimen is part of the National Museum of Natural History collection

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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 29 November, 2017 - 5:30pm
Last updated 18 December, 2018 - 11:36am

not yet recorded in the US...
...per(1)
… v belov, 17 December, 2018 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Interesting
If it doesn't occur in the U.S. and hasn't occurred here in the past, then, other possible scenarios include:

1. Spillman confused this specimen with another collected in Boca Chica, Texas.
2. The label was swapped from a US specimen by accident or on purpose later on.
3. The beetle was misidentified.
4. This lonely specimen hitchhiked north of the southern border and no other has followed on its footsteps.

The obvious question: should this series be frassed?
… Salvador Vitanza, 17 December, 2018 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

 
not at all...
any chance you can have it examined by Jason? or some other teneb guy -- of which there are plenty in Arizona :]
… v belov, 17 December, 2018 - 10:51pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree with the ID as it stands
I reviewed the key and figures in Triplehorn (1974)(1), and this specimen came out pretty straightforwardly as Pechalius pilosus (Champion).
… Jason Botz, 18 December, 2018 - 11:28am login or register to post comments

 
awesome -- thanks a lot, colleagues
so it's a country record, then
… v belov, 18 December, 2018 - 3:15pm login or register to post comments

 
I'll do that
I just emailed the authors of that paper hoping they, or at least one of them, will share their thoughts with us soon.
Thanks!
… Salvador Vitanza, 17 December, 2018 - 10:55pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pechalius.
… v belov, 6 December, 2017 - 7:10pm login or register to post comments

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