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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Apocryphini » Apocrypha » Apocrypha anthicoides
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beetle - Apocrypha anthicoides
Copyright © 2009 Joyce Gross

beetle - Apocrypha anthicoides
Knowland Park, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
December 22, 2008
Size: just under 3mm
From inside a rotting Monterey Pine log.

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beetle - Apocrypha anthicoides beetle - Apocrypha anthicoides
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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 1 January, 2009 - 12:39am
Last updated 28 May, 2009 - 1:09am

Moved
Moved from Apocrypha.
… Joyce Gross, 28 May, 2009 - 1:09am login or register to post comments

Sweet!
Arouses my envy as usual, both for photography and specimen.
… Jim McClarin, 1 January, 2009 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

wow... Apocrypha... new to BG!
a surreal anthicomorph tenebrionid
… v belov, 1 January, 2009 - 2:04am login or register to post comments

 
Apocrypha
Thanks Vassili -- what a weird teneb.

It looks quite like Apocrypha anthicoides in the SBMNH database and the distribution for the specimens listed there looks best for my beetle, but there are three Apocrypha species in CA so I've moved this to the genus page for now.
… Joyce Gross, 1 January, 2009 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

 
species anthicoides. The oth
species anthicoides. The other ones have 2 to 8 hairs on the pronotum sort of laterally.
… Kojun Kanda, 28 May, 2009 - 1:03am login or register to post comments

 
species
Thanks Kojun!
… Joyce Gross, 28 May, 2009 - 1:10am login or register to post comments

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