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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Diaperinae » Diaperini » Adelinina » Adelina
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Flat beetle under bark - Adelina - female
Copyright © 2009 margarethe brummermann

Flat beetle under bark - Adelina - Female
Picture Rocks, NW of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
February 27, 2009
Size: 3-5mm
Under the bark of a dead, but upright Ironwood Tree
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 1 March, 2009 - 5:18pm
Last updated 4 March, 2010 - 8:50am

How about the Tenebrionid genus
Adelina?
… Skip Blanchard, 1 March, 2009 - 5:44pm login or register to post comments

 
I
think so also. Frequent under bark in Arizona.
… Donald S. Chandler, 1 March, 2009 - 9:27pm login or register to post comments

 
By exclusion: A. plana
If Kojun's is A. pallida this would have to be the other SW species.
… margarethe brummermann, 1 March, 2009 - 10:54pm login or register to post comments

 
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/teneb/b_histricus.htm
This website has good pictures of those two spp. But non of them looks like the one here. The pronotum here seems much wider in front, and neither one shows that feature.
… margarethe brummermann, 1 March, 2009 - 11:25pm login or register to post comments

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