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Gopher Beetle - Ceratophyus gopherinus - male

Gopher Beetle - Ceratophyus gopherinus - Male
Santa Barbara County, California, USA
December 19, 2010
Size: ~2cm
Found crawling through a parking lot bordering Burton Mesa chaparral habitat during heavy rain

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Gopher Beetle - Ceratophyus gopherinus - male Gopher Beetle - Ceratophyus gopherinus - male Gopher Beetle - Ceratophyus gopherinus - male Gopher Beetle - Ceratophyus gopherinus - male

Beautiful series, Alice!
And how lucky you were! I tried to find this sp. last year, but could only find emergence holes. Perhaps I'll have more luck this year, though I'm not as local as you are.
If you're interested, I can e-mail you the Cartwright paper (1966) on this species.

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Nice shots - thanks for sharing

Ceratophyus gopherinus
Ceratophyus gopherinus Cartwright I presume? Wow. As someone who has been looking at rain beetles a lot these past couple of months, this beetle gave me a start! Thanks for posting this beauty.

 
Yes :o)
I helped make collections of these beetles a few years ago, before I had a good camera, and I'd been meaning to go back and track one down for photos. I got lucky finding this individual out crawling around, I think he was likely flooded out by the rain as the area I've found burrows in was pretty much a marsh.

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