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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Megapenthes » undescribed species - Arizona (Megapenthes undescribed species - Arizona)
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Slender Beetle - Megapenthes
Copyright © 2018 Michael J. Plagens

Slender Beetle - Megapenthes
Aguila, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
March 18, 2017
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Contributed by Michael J. Plagens on 3 September, 2018 - 12:00am
Last updated 22 March, 2020 - 10:28am

Moved
I think this is an undescribed Megapenthes. After the initial BG specimen from Yuma Co., AZ, I discovered I had this species in my collection from Maricopa Co., AZ mis-identified as A. tenuis. Seems it might be more widely distributed in the lower Sonoran Desert than expected (or there could be a complex of species...)

Moved from Aphricus tenuis.
… Blaine Mathison, 22 March, 2020 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

 
Isolation
Good time to be socializing with dead insects on pins.
… Michael J. Plagens, 23 March, 2020 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved, Aphricus tenuis
Nice find and a new species for BG!

Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 3 September, 2018 - 6:59am login or register to post comments

 
New species
I was afraid I did not get enough detail for accurate id.
… Michael J. Plagens, 3 September, 2018 - 11:47pm login or register to post comments

 
I just this week received a specimen from Maricopa Co. :)
… Blaine Mathison, 4 September, 2018 - 6:00am login or register to post comments

Click Beetle
With the sharp corners on back of thorax, it looks like a click beetle.
… Ken Allison, 3 September, 2018 - 6:14am login or register to post comments

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