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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Amphidorini » Embaphion » Embaphion contusum
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Darkling Beetle - Embaphion contusum
Copyright © 2018 Scott Nelson

Darkling Beetle - Embaphion contusum
Jerome, Jerome County, Idaho, USA
May 1, 2018
Size: 18 mm
I cannot find a match, but it would seem to be a carrion beetle of some sort. None listed in Idaho for this species yet.

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Contributed by Scott Nelson on 22 May, 2018 - 8:29pm
Last updated 23 May, 2018 - 8:02pm

E. contusum seems likely... but hard to say
Sure has the look of E. contusum. But E. glabrum also has punctures, and when they get full of dirt, they can tend to look like this. In the lateral image it is hard to see where the elytral costae end (whether they go all the way to the margin).

E. contusum has been reported (in collections) from eastern UT and SE Idaho ... but the species probably need to be re-evaluated for the whole genus.
… Andrew Johnston, 19 December, 2018 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 23 May, 2018 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

It's a darkling beetle. Check
It's a darkling beetle. Check out Embaphion.

Someone might be able to get it to species. I'd guess E. glabrum
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 22 May, 2018 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree with Embaphion
but elytral texture to me suggests Embaphion contusum over E. glabrum.
… Blaine Mathison, 23 May, 2018 - 7:35am login or register to post comments

 
As the running tally of times
As the running tally of times I've been right and you wrong in the last 10 or so years is roughly 0, we'll go with calling this contusum.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 23 May, 2018 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

 
Will you move this to the pro
Will you move this to the proper location or shall I free up load to this particular species?
… Scott Nelson, 23 May, 2018 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

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