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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Cnemodinini » Cnemodinus » Cnemodinus testaceus
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Sand-colored with digging legs. - Cnemodinus testaceus
Copyright © 2011 margarethe brummermann

Sand-colored with digging legs. - Cnemodinus testaceus
Mowhawk Dunes, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
February 28, 2011
Size: 7.5 mm
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 4 March, 2011 - 1:41pm
Last updated 4 March, 2011 - 4:28pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 4 March, 2011 - 4:28pm login or register to post comments

From Warren Steiner
Cnemodinus testaceus Horn
… Michael C. Thomas, 4 March, 2011 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks guys
i can't believe we've had this thing in the guide -- albeit not in this dramatic lifelike form...
… v belov, 4 March, 2011 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Great!
By the way alive, not just life-like. Most of my beetles are when I take the photos
… margarethe brummermann, 4 March, 2011 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

outlandish...
chafer mimic
… v belov, 4 March, 2011 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Tenebrionid trying to be a sc
Tenebrionid trying to be a scarab...Cnemodinus testaceus
… Warren E. Steiner, 4 March, 2011 - 4:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Who would want to mimic those?
… margarethe brummermann, 4 March, 2011 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

 
not me ))
… v belov, 4 March, 2011 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

 
freaky bizarre
Looks like only four tarsomeres in hind tarsus, so maybe a dunse-specialst tenebrionid? anthicid?
… Blaine Mathison, 4 March, 2011 - 2:14pm login or register to post comments

 
i'm sure it's a teneb
completely depraved, that's for sure
… v belov, 4 March, 2011 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes,Teneb, though he ran like a Carabid
… margarethe brummermann, 4 March, 2011 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

 
.
good thing you carabid it before it got away :)
… Blaine Mathison, 4 March, 2011 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Actually Charlie O'Brien sifted it
out of the sand while looking for weevils
… margarethe brummermann, 4 March, 2011 - 3:24pm login or register to post comments

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