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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Vacronini » Alaephus
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beetle - Alaephus
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

beetle - Alaephus
Kernville, Kern County, California, USA
June 27, 2008
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Contributed by tom murray on 10 July, 2008 - 5:36pm
Last updated 8 February, 2009 - 10:56am

Moved
Moved from Darkling Beetles.
… tom murray, 8 February, 2009 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

how about Alaephus?
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… v belov, 8 February, 2009 - 9:34am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… tom murray, 10 July, 2008 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

Isomira
Looks like it could be a Isomira judging by the lack of pad on the penultimate tarsomere.
… Kojun Kanda, 10 July, 2008 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

 
it would surprise the stuff out of me...
...if this turns out to be an Isomira...
… v belov, 10 July, 2008 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

 
hmm
At first, the pronotum reminded me of the genus, Telesicles, but these have lobes on the penultimate taromere. Since this one doesn't have lobes and doesn't have stria on the elytra, can't really think of anything else. Do you still have this specimen Tom?
… Kojun Kanda, 10 July, 2008 - 6:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Didn't keep it
The only specimens I saved were the Carabids that I send to Peter Messer .
… tom murray, 10 July, 2008 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

now we're talking...
a desert alleculid of some kind?
… v belov, 10 July, 2008 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

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