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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Edrotini » Edrotes » subgenus Edrotes (Edrotes subgenus Edrotes) » Edrotes ventricosus
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Is this Paracotalpa deserti - Edrotes ventricosus
Copyright © 2012 Bruce Lund

Is this Paracotalpa deserti - Edrotes ventricosus
Moapa 50 miles north of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, USA
January 28, 2012
Size: 9 mm long
I'm looking for an indentification confirmation OR other options. Using Evans and Hogue Field Guige to Beetles of California, this matches pretty well the description for P. deserta as a Little Bear scarab, "black" and occurring in "February and March" in creosote-bursage vegetation in Mojave Desert habitat. Of the four Paracotalpa species, P. deserta has by far the fewest images on line.

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Is this Paracotalpa deserti - Edrotes ventricosus Is this Paracotalpa deserti - Edrotes ventricosus
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Contributed by Bruce Lund on 28 January, 2012 - 7:59pm
Last updated 6 February, 2013 - 12:38am

Moved
Moved from Edrotes.
… Aaron Schusteff, 6 February, 2013 - 12:38am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 28 January, 2012 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

Scarabs have different shaped antennae
This is a teneb -- Edrotes sp.
… Brad Barnd, 28 January, 2012 - 8:53pm login or register to post comments

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