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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Bolitophagini » Bolitophagus » Bolitophagus corticola
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Beetle - Bolitophagus corticola
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Beetle - Bolitophagus corticola
Randolph, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
April 27, 2005
Noserus plicatus.
It played dead while I watched, but when I left it for a few minutes and came back, it was gone.

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Contributed by tom murray on 7 May, 2005 - 9:59am
Last updated 17 February, 2018 - 10:53pm

Bolitophagus corticola
Compare the pronotum and bumpy elytra.
… Jim McClarin, 4 April, 2006 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Jim
I see you reared one. You're doing really well at getting from larva to adult on some nice beetles.
… tom murray, 5 April, 2006 - 7:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Now in family Zopheridae - nice shot, as usual.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 30 June, 2005 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Zopheridae
Thanks Phillip. I originally put it in Tenebrionidae, because that's where it's in the National Audubon Insects & Spiders book.
… tom murray, 30 June, 2005 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm sorry but I don't think t
I'm sorry but I don't think this is noserus plicatus, its a western species
… William Ericson, 25 March, 2006 - 12:27am login or register to post comments

 
moved
I agree this was identified wrong. Thanks for the help.
… tom murray, 25 March, 2006 - 12:39am login or register to post comments

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