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Species Oxycopis mimetica

Oxycopis mimetica (Horn) - Oxycopis mimetica ? - Oxycopis mimetica Beetle - Oxycopis mimetica Oxycopis species? - Oxycopis mimetica Chauliognathus sp.? - Oxycopis mimetica Oxycopis mimetica? - Oxycopis mimetica beetle - Oxycopis mimetica Oxycopis mimetica resting in Kansas  - Oxycopis mimetica
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Oedemerinae
Tribe Asclerini
Genus Oxycopis
Species mimetica (Oxycopis mimetica)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Oxycopis mimetica (Horn)
Orig. Comb: Copidita mimetica Horn 1896
Size
6.0-11.0 mm(1)(2)
Identification

Det. E. G. Riley, 2012
Range
e. US (NJ-FL to SD-NM) - Map (1)(3), most records: Great Plains, & se US
Season
mostly May-Jun (BG data)
Remarks
comes to lights(4)
Print References
Horn, G.H. 1896[1897]. The Oedemeridae of Boreal America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 6: 382-422.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard