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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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slim jim on a grass stem - Spalacopsis texana

Slim Jim on a grass stem - Spalacopsis texana

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

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… v belov, 28 April, 2011 - 4:21pm

Spalacopsis stolata?

very cool one, Diane -- wanna see more of it

… v belov, 28 April, 2011 - 2:31pm

Spalacopsis texana Casey

S. stolata is known only from Florida.

… Michael C. Thomas, 28 April, 2011 - 3:22pm

Please

ignore. Deleted stupid comment. Must be the hour...

… Jim McClarin, 29 April, 2011 - 3:27am

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

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