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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Long-jointed Beetles (Lagriinae) » Lagriini » Statira » Statira basalis
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Darkling Beetle - Statira basalis
Copyright © 2010 J. Ott

Darkling Beetle - Statira basalis
Pearl River County, Mississippi, USA
April 3, 2010
Size: ~9mm BL
New Statira for guide? Thanks Johnny.

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Contributed by J. Ott on 3 April, 2010 - 12:00pm
Last updated 3 April, 2010 - 2:53pm

Moved tentatively but quite sure this is it; nicest series!
will ask Dr Dunford to check
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 3 April, 2010 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Jim Dunford: "looks like basalis to me; known in MS"
… v belov, 10 May, 2010 - 11:36pm login or register to post comments

Nice
Definately looks like a Statira, but does not match any of the species in the Eastern tenebs website. Looks a little like S. basalis in the guide, which has been recorded from TX.
… Blaine Mathison, 3 April, 2010 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Blaine
and V.
… J. Ott, 3 April, 2010 - 12:35pm login or register to post comments

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