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Roundish, dark beetle - Melanocanthon nigricornis
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Roundish, dark beetle - Melanocanthon nigricornis
Great Salt Plains, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, USA
July 31, 2018
Melanocanthon nigricornis?

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Roundish, dark beetle - Melanocanthon nigricornis Roundish, dark beetle - Melanocanthon nigricornis Roundish, dark beetle - Melanocanthon nigricornis
Contributed by Bob Webster on 10 January, 2020 - 12:04pm

Moved tentatively; I think I see two spurs on the hind tibia
Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 10 January, 2020 - 12:18pm

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