Man, you are fast! Thanks much !

I'll be sad to see summer pass this year - the night lighting has been great with the hot nights and high humidity. I'll have lots to pin up this winter, though, from the duplicates papered away.

from you I can get a species on them, Have Dr. Robert Gordon as a colleague and he has worked extensively with aphodines. I have only collected two or three my entire career! Anything scarab you may have extras of we can hang names on for you. Cheers

You would like some mailed to you? That wouldn't be a problem. There are hundreds at my UV light each night. I generally collect on the weekends.

that would be great! email me at guy.hanley@minotstateu.edu and I will get you my mailing address, I certainly can reimburse you for mailing cost if you want.

are pinned up and waiting for a visit from Robert Gordon, hopefully we can get a name on this critter!

Thanks, Guy. I'm very appreciative of the id's supplied so far.

I see this string of comments stopped last year. I don't know if Gordon identified them or not. From what I can see in the picture, the base of the head lacking a coarse band of punctures, pretty much throws it toward At. platensis. I can't make out the lateral fringe of setae on the pronotum cleary, but details of this fringe are also charactristic. The pronotal puncture pattern, Missouri collection, and large numbers at lights also fits the species. I'd be interested to hear what Hanley/Gordon thought after seeing specimens. I'm only shooting from the hip with the picture.

Bob did look at them, his det is A. strigatus with a question mark.....The other specimens included in the vial with these were Labarrus pseudolividus presumably collected at the same time