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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Epicautini » Epicauta » subgenus Epicauta (Epicauta subgenus Epicauta) » Sericans Group (Epicauta Sericans Group) » Punctate Blister Beetle (Epicauta puncticollis)
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beetle - Epicauta puncticollis
Copyright © 2009 Phil Huntley-Franck

beetle - Epicauta puncticollis
Elkton, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
July 26, 2009
Size: approx 10mm
Based on the hairy head, etc., I'm wondering if this might be Epicauta puncticollis.

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beetle - Epicauta puncticollis beetle - Epicauta puncticollis beetle - Epicauta puncticollis
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Contributed by Phil Huntley-Franck on 17 November, 2009 - 4:34pm

good call -- will check with Dr Pinto
Moved from Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles.
… v belov, 17 November, 2009 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by John Pinto: E. puncticollis
his comment: "Only in parts of California could an Epicauta with this phenotype be something else."
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