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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Lamiinae) » Agapanthiini » Spalacopsis » Spalacopsis texana
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Slim Jim on a grass stem - Spalacopsis texana
Copyright © 2011 Diane Young

Slim Jim on a grass stem - Spalacopsis texana
Welder Wildlife Refuge, San Patricio County, Texas, USA
April 25, 2011
Size: 1 cm
I noticed this beetle clinging to a grass stem in my sweep net. When I tried to photograph it, the little fellow played dead and would not cooperate. He (she) was just to cute to collect. Anybody kow this one?

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Contributed by Diane Young on 28 April, 2011 - 2:15pm
Last updated 23 May, 2015 - 3:03pm

I need to take...
an "anti-pity pill" (a term used by Beverly Nichols in "Merry Hall"). I could not bring myself to dispatch this one. I let it go at Welder Wildlife Refuge.
… Diane Young, 28 April, 2011 - 7:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 28 April, 2011 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

Spalacopsis stolata?
very cool one, Diane -- wanna see more of it
… v belov, 28 April, 2011 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Spalacopsis texana Casey
S. stolata is known only from Florida.
… Michael C. Thomas, 28 April, 2011 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Please
ignore. Deleted stupid comment. Must be the hour...
… Jim McClarin, 29 April, 2011 - 3:27am login or register to post comments

 
wow -- even better! new-to-BG.
thanks, Mike.
Diane, pleeease add a dorsal habitus at some point, would you? and keep posting your amazing stuff.
… v belov, 28 April, 2011 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

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