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Armored Beetle - Asbolus verrucosus
Copyright © 2010 Eduardo Cruz

Armored Beetle - Asbolus verrucosus
Indio HIlls, Riverside County, California, USA
June 29, 2010
It is a tough little beetle have seen them around as children but not since then. They have an extraordinary strong exo-skeleton. It also has a very long "play dead" reflex it went stiff in the pose I photographed it in.

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Contributed by Eduardo Cruz on 29 June, 2010 - 7:37pm
Last updated 29 March, 2024 - 10:05pm

Moved
Moved from Cryptoglossini.
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Moved
Moved from Darkling Beetles.
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… Brad Barnd, 16 July, 2010 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

Asbolus sp.
could be Crytoglossa, but I dont think so. Asbolus is more round and Cryptoglossa is more elongate, in general body form.
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