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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Dascilloidea » Cicada Parasite Beetles (Rhipiceridae) » Sandalus
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Cedar beetle? - Sandalus
Copyright © 2018 Alexandre E. Belley

Cedar beetle? - Sandalus
Hillsboro, Jefferson County, Missouri, USA
Size: .75 in.
Found on persimmon fruit.
Can I get some good suggestions as to this ID?

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Cedar beetle? - Sandalus Cedar beetle?
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Contributed by Alexandre E. Belley on 23 June, 2018 - 4:30pm
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 7:36pm

sighting date missing
… v belov, 1 October, 2023 - 7:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Curt Harden, 18 September, 2018 - 9:57am login or register to post comments

Sandalus petrophya
.
… Eric Chapman, 25 June, 2018 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

 
I really doubt your ID;
This looks a lot more like Cedar beetle (S. niger). Also, my state(MO) seems out of the range of S. petrophya.
… Alexandre E. Belley, 25 June, 2018 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Do you have the specimen?
.
… Eric Chapman, 25 June, 2018 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, it's in my insect collection.
Why?
… Alexandre E. Belley, 25 June, 2018 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

 
There is a new key to eastern species
Schnepp KE, Powell GS. 2018. A new species of Sandalus Knoch (Coleoptera: Rhipiceridae), with an updated key to the species of the eastern USA. The Coleopterists bulletin 72(2): 241-245.

Do you have access to interlibrary loan?
… Eric Chapman, 26 June, 2018 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

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