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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae) » Ironclad Beetles (Zopherinae) » Usechini » Usechus » Usechus lacerta
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Usechus? - Usechus lacerta
Copyright © 2008 Will Chatfield-Taylor

Usechus? - Usechus lacerta
San Gregorio Beach, San Mateo County, California, USA
August 8, 2008
Size: ~4mm
Thought people might like this minute Zopherid :-)
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Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 19 August, 2008 - 4:18pm
Last updated 19 September, 2011 - 6:13am

Nathan Lord: "looks like Usechus lacerta"
Moved from Usechus.
… v belov, 19 September, 2011 - 6:13am login or register to post comments

Neat!
just tried to pin a large one - now I know where the name comes from
… margarethe brummermann, 19 August, 2008 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

 
yes, neat indeed
from my experience, they are only rivaled in ironcladness/impinnitrability by some desert Pimelini, Julodinae, and maybe Capnodis; learned it the hard way, too
… v belov, 20 August, 2008 - 5:40am login or register to post comments

 
Check out Cybister in Dytisci
Check out Cybister in Dytiscidae, I had to pound the pin in with a screwdriver! I don't suppose you'd be up for trading for a Julodinae? I'd really like to get one. I'm trying to start up a reference collection for the Buprestids!
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 20 August, 2008 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

 
i got rid of my entire collection in 1993
couldn't handle the stuff anymore...
… v belov, 20 August, 2008 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

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