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Click Beetle - Conoderus scissus

Click Beetle - Conoderus scissus
Hancock County, Mississippi, USA
August 3, 2009
Size: ~11.2mm BL
Sandy/marsh area near mouth of Pearl River.Thanks

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Gd are they tough... i was wrong about subfam twice in a row...
Moved from Prosterninae.

I come up with
Conoderus scissus (Schaeffer)

 
great -- thanks a lot, Dr Thomas!
i kinda ruled Conoderus out because of the lobeless tarsi :)

 
Thanks V and Dr. Thomas,You gentlemen are exactly
what makes posting images here so rewarding.My vacations up and hope
to have some new Beetle's afterward.Thanks johnny.

a moment of... something: Horistonotus? say, uhlerii Horn...
...called 'the sand wireworm'(1)

love this one; pronotum unique; name forthcoming

 
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