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Onthophilus lecontei
Photo#163596
Copyright © 2008
Dennis Haines
Onthophilus sp. -
Onthophilus lecontei
Ash Mountain, 2800' elev., Tulare County, California, USA
February 5, 1983
Size: ca. 3 mm
It looks like something in
Onthophilus
to me. Any ideas on a species identification?
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Contributed by
Dennis Haines
on 2 January, 2008 - 3:23pm
Last updated 9 January, 2013 - 6:50pm
Moved
Moved from
Onthophilus
.
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Jeff Gruber
, 16 January, 2008 - 6:59pm
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Probably...
pretty safe to say it's
O. lecontei
, seeing that's the only
Onthophilus
listed on the California Beetle Project
database
. Although, Mazur's world catalogue does list
O. kirni
as occurring in CA. Safer to put it at genus level until it can be keyed. Would it be possible to get a shot of the ventral surface showing punctation of metasternum?
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Jeff Gruber
, 2 January, 2008 - 9:26pm
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I will try.
I will try.
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Dennis Haines
, 2 January, 2008 - 10:30pm
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Onthophilus lecontei
I ran them through the key and they clearly key out to O. lecontei. The pronotal costae 2 & 3 are clearly present, though not extending all the way to the posterior margin. It also lack the fosa on elytral costa 3. So while these are from the Sierra Nevada instead of the coastal plain, I can see nothing to keep them from being the typical California species.
Thanks for the key Jeff!
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Dennis Haines
, 16 January, 2008 - 6:44pm
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