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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Fruit and Flower Chafers (Cetoniinae) » Cremastocheilini » Anteater Scarab Beetles (Cremastocheilus) » subgenus Cremastocheilus (Cremastocheilus subgenus Cremastocheilus) » Cremastocheilus castaneae
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Scarab - Cremastocheilus castaneae
Copyright © 2010 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Scarab - Cremastocheilus castaneae
Wood Co. SWA, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA
May 10, 2007
Size: 9mm
Found alive in Formica sp. ant nest at base of old Pinus sp. stump, edge of oak forest/savanna.

Determined to species using Nadine Kriska's MS thesis tome 'The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Wisconsin: Species Inventory, Taxonomic Keys, Natural Histories, and Distributions'.

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

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 5 January, 2010 - 7:05pm

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