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large black desert beetle - Philolithus

large black desert beetle - Philolithus
Desert Edge, Riverside County, California, USA
January 14, 2010
Size: around 25-30 mm
So I was thinking it was a darkling beetle, but I couldn't find this one in the few minutes I browsed the guide.

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large black desert beetle - Philolithus large black desert beetle - Philolithus

Moved
Moved from Philolithus.

Moved tentatively -- will ask around
Moved from Beetles.

 
genus looks good...
species may be tough to nail down.

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