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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae) » Oedemerinae » Asclerini » Rhinoplatia » Rhinoplatia ruficollis
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False Blister Beetle - Rhinoplatia ruficollis
Copyright © 2009 Lynette Elliott

False Blister Beetle - Rhinoplatia ruficollis
Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County, California, USA
April 7, 2009
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False Blister Beetle - Rhinoplatia ruficollis False Blister Beetle - Rhinoplatia ruficollis
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 12 April, 2009 - 7:20pm
Last updated 5 February, 2010 - 1:29am

thanks a ton, Hartmut!
Moved from Rhinoplatia.
… v belov, 5 February, 2010 - 1:29am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Vassili,
for all of your great, untiring work!
… Hartmut Wisch, 5 February, 2010 - 1:36am login or register to post comments

Rhinoplatia -- but which one?
Rh. ruficollis Horn must be more common but the type differs from your beetle in head color (var.?) and vestiture; another option is Rh. mortivallicola Arnett, of which i know nothing.

Moved from False Blister Beetles.
… v belov, 31 May, 2009 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

 
Quite sure this is R. ruficollis -
The Harvard MCZ specimen is rather worn, and shows the dark ground color of the elytra. Fresh specimens, like Lynette's (and I'm about to post some photos as well) are entirely clothed in a somewhat dense, griseous pubescence. The head may be entirely black or, as seen here, with the apical half reddish-orange. Please see the INFO page for more, including references. Also, there are records for the neighboring Palm Springs area.
R. mortivallicola is known only from the Death Valley Region. That beetle can be distinguished from ruficollis by the longer, and narrower thorax, shiny and devoid of pubescence, its entirely reddish-orange head, and sparse black pubescence at the subapex.
… Hartmut Wisch, 5 February, 2010 - 1:27am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks V
It's certainly a neat looking beetle.
… Lynette Elliott, 31 May, 2009 - 9:26am login or register to post comments

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