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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Sand-loving Scarab Beetles (Ochodaeidae) » Cucochodaeus » Cucochodaeus sparsus
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Cucochodaeus sparsus (LeConte) - Cucochodaeus sparsus
Copyright © 2009 Mike Quinn

Cucochodaeus sparsus (LeConte) - Cucochodaeus sparsus
Monahans State Park, Ward County, Texas, USA
August 18, 1990
Det. MJ Paulsen, 2010

spmn in the UTIC, Austin, TX

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 3 December, 2009 - 12:21pm
Last updated 4 April, 2017 - 2:10pm

Moved
Moved from Sand-loving Scarab Beetles.
… MJ Paulsen, 17 February, 2010 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ochodaeus.
… Blaine Mathison, 3 December, 2009 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

Ochodaeidae...
After a recent (2007?) revision by M. J. Paulsen, there are no longer true Ochodaeus in North America. Would need shots of pygidium and other diagnostic features (which I cannot think of at the top of my head :) for a genus-level ID.
… Blaine Mathison, 3 December, 2009 - 1:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Very true!
But in this case the pronotum is modified behind the eyes, mandibles are externally angulate, hindlegs aren't expanded, and there's a horn = Cucochodaeus sparsus. Unfortunately as you've noted, most species aren't this easy to ID with photographs.
… MJ Paulsen, 17 February, 2010 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

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