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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Tiger Beetles (Cicindelinae) » Blunt-lipped Tiger Beetles (Amblycheilini) » Night-stalking Tiger Beetles (Omus) » California Night-stalking Tiger Beetle (Omus californicus)
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Omus californicus? - Omus californicus - male
Copyright © 2008 Ken Schneider

Omus californicus? - Omus californicus - Male
Packer Lake, Sierra County, California, USA
July 9, 2008
Size: ~ 1.5 cm
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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 13 July, 2008 - 4:53pm
Last updated 4 June, 2013 - 11:49am

Moved
Moved from Omus californicus angustocylindricus.
… Dennis Haines, 4 June, 2013 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from California Night-stalking Tiger Beetle.
… Dennis Haines, 9 July, 2010 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Night-stalking Tiger Beetles.
… Ken Schneider, 24 April, 2009 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 15 September, 2008 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Ken Schneider, 6 August, 2008 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Using this key: http://mem
Using this key:

http://members.aol.com/YESedu/IDkeyOmu.html

you're looks like Omus californicus

I'd still wait for a final confirmation by an expert though. The other species is supposed to have the elytra broadest past the middle
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 15 September, 2008 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree with Will, a male Omu
I agree with Will, a male Omus californicus angustocylindrus is a likely identification.
… Dennis Haines, 24 April, 2009 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

 
I spent some time collecting...
O. c. angustocylindricus, and this is questionable. So I placed it back in with O. californicus until more specimens can be located from this site. There is still a lot of work to do with the Omus of the northern Sierra Nevada.
… Dennis Haines, 4 June, 2013 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Will!
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… Ken Schneider, 15 September, 2008 - 8:38pm login or register to post comments

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