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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Cnemeplatiini » Alaudes » Alaudes singularis
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Teneb - Alaudes singularis
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Teneb - Alaudes singularis
Laguna Mountains, San Diego County, California, USA
May 23, 2009
Size: just under 2mm
Several found in ant nest under rock.

All pics taken with automontage system. Actual montaging done with CombineZP.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 7 June, 2009 - 2:42pm
Last updated 16 December, 2018 - 7:02pm

must be this one
Moved from Alaudes.
… v belov, 16 December, 2018 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Rolf Aalbu agrees
… v belov, 16 December, 2018 - 10:59pm login or register to post comments

my idea of perfect beetle and perfect shot
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… v belov, 7 June, 2009 - 6:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks. Ranks...
up there with the hetaeriines. Then again, I am slightly biased. Gotta love those scales and spatulate setae.
… Jeff Gruber, 8 June, 2009 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

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