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Trogoderma? - Trogoderma sternale
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Trogoderma? - Trogoderma sternale
Plymouth Elementary School, Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 22, 2024
In Emerald Necklace Garden, sleeping under unopened flowerhead. I only saw one.





is same morphospecies.

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Trogoderma? - Trogoderma sternale Trogoderma? - Trogoderma sternale
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Contributed by C on 22 May, 2024 - 5:42pm
Last updated 20 December, 2024 - 6:57pm

Moved
Moved from Trogoderma.
… v belov, 20 December, 2024 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

both are Trogoderma sternale in my opinion
pattern is close to this one for example
http://www.dermestidae.com/Trogodermasternalemaderae.html

but there are several subspecies and Beal mentioned in his 2003 key:
"Named subspecies are listed below, but because of transportation by commerce and subsequent interbreeding it is increasingly difficult to assign specimens to subspecies except for specimens taken some distance from human habitations. Natural geographic ranges of subspecies are found in Beal (1954)."
… Andrew Hess, 20 December, 2024 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
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