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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) » Deltochilini » Pseudocanthon » Pseudocanthon perplexus
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Small Round Beetle - Pseudocanthon perplexus
Copyright © 2019 Victor Engel

Small Round Beetle - Pseudocanthon perplexus
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
July 8, 2019
Size: 4.7mm
Beetle is on a sliding door screen.

Wires are 1.4mm apart (10 wires are 14mm)
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Contributed by Victor Engel on 8 July, 2019 - 11:25pm
Last updated 15 September, 2020 - 3:55pm

Moved
Moved from Ateuchus.
… v belov, 15 September, 2020 - 3:55pm login or register to post comments

Size
I added a size, which is the size of the beetle in the position shown. Judging by photos of other beetles in this genus, this is a curled up position and it would be a bit longer with head uncurled.
… Victor Engel, 9 July, 2019 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 9 July, 2019 - 11:28am login or register to post comments

 
What about Pseudocanthon?
What about Pseudocanthon?
… Victor Engel, 15 September, 2020 - 12:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Victor Engel, 8 July, 2019 - 11:56pm login or register to post comments

Seems similar to this one. [
Seems similar to this one.


As with that one, this one was attracted to a UV light.
… Victor Engel, 8 July, 2019 - 11:46pm login or register to post comments

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