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Black bristled desert beetle - Edrotes ventricosus
Copyright © 2010 hwarren1203

Black bristled desert beetle - Edrotes ventricosus
Mud Caves, Anza Borrego, San Diego County, California, USA
January 17, 2010
Size: 1/2 to 3/4 inch
Found this beetle in the Mud Caves of the Anza Borrego desert walking in the wash outside of the caves.
Contributed by hwarren1203 on 17 January, 2010 - 10:02pm
Last updated 10 January, 2023 - 1:55pm

Moved
Moved from Edrotes.

Shiny elytra (without coarse punctation), long 3rd antennal segment, and faint whitish longitudinal lineations on elytra all point to E. ventricosus. This is our most commonly encountered species, Individuals and populations can be quite variable in the degree of linear arrangement of the long hairs on the elytra...from strikingly aligned to seemingly randomly scattered.
… Aaron Schusteff, 1 October, 2014 - 8:16pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 18 January, 2010 - 3:37am

Check out Edrotes.
Cute beetles! :)

http://bugguide.net/node/view/17518/bgimage
… Natalie Hernandez, 17 January, 2010 - 10:25pm

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