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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Helopini » Tarpela » Tarpela micans
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Darkling Beetle - Tarpela micans
Copyright © 2011 Roy Cohutta Brown

Darkling Beetle - Tarpela micans
Whitepath Road area, Gilmer County, Georgia, USA
April 9, 2011
Found running around in a clearing during early morning, detained briefly, at 1600' in a mostly deciduous forest in the north Georgia mountains.

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Contributed by Roy Cohutta Brown on 27 December, 2011 - 1:26pm

Nice photo..
Gorgous coloration for a rather normally dull family of beetles.
… Gary Griswold, 27 December, 2011 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 27 December, 2011 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Awesome fast
Thanks Blaine. I spent a LOT of time trying to ID this one and came up with nothing. You did it in seconds. It is like you KO'd me on this, in the first few seconds of the first round. I REALLY appreciate it. Roy
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 27 December, 2011 - 1:32pm login or register to post comments

 
my pleasure
I am in Atlanta and working on the click beetles of the southeast. I'd be interested in any specimens you come across up there in the North GA Mountains (if you are cool with collecting). You can contact me for details on my info page.
… Blaine Mathison, 27 December, 2011 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

 
OK
Thanks
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 27 December, 2011 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

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