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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Amphidorini » Desert Stink Beetles (Eleodes) » subgenus Melaneleodes (Eleodes subgenus Melaneleodes)
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Darkling Beetle - Eleodes
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Darkling Beetle - Eleodes
near Eagar, Apache County, Arizona, USA
June 22, 2008
Size: 14mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 4 July, 2008 - 2:56pm
Last updated 28 June, 2018 - 7:03pm

Moved tentatively
Moved from Desert Stink Beetles.
… v belov, 28 June, 2018 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

Hard to say...
Would need to see prosternum/geniatlia - but I would guess E. debilis - but could easily be E. carbonaria, or perhaps E. extricata.
… Andrew Johnston, 28 June, 2018 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Darkling Beetles.
… tom murray, 6 July, 2008 - 8:27pm login or register to post comments

Eleodes
looks like Eleodes
… Kojun Kanda, 6 July, 2008 - 5:33pm login or register to post comments

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