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Beetle ID - Pasimachus californicus
Copyright © 2009 Heidi Eaton

Beetle ID - Pasimachus californicus
Cañon City, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
June 8, 2009
Size: >20mm
I thought at first this was a stag beetle, but the antennae make me lean more toward Scarites sp. Any ideas?
Contributed by Heidi Eaton on 9 June, 2009 - 12:24am
Last updated 8 December, 2020 - 7:54pm

Moved tentatively -- thanks for the [unforced] guess, Peter
Moved from Pasimachus.
… v belov, 9 March, 2010 - 10:33pm

close: Pasimachus
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… v belov, 9 June, 2009 - 2:40am

 
Pasimachus californicus
if forced to guess; based on locality + smooth (non-striate) elytra + short humeral (shoulder) caina + absence of blue along sides. The suggestion of a long pair of longitudinal depressions on pronotum is probably not real.
… Peter W. Messer, 9 March, 2010 - 10:31pm

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