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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Aphodiine Dung Beetles (Aphodiinae) » Aphodiini » Dialytellus » Dialytellus tragicus
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Aphodiine - Dialytellus tragicus
Copyright © 2012 Graham Montgomery

Aphodiine - Dialytellus tragicus
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, USA
February 23, 2011
Size: ~5 mm
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Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 2 March, 2012 - 7:07pm
Last updated 4 March, 2012 - 1:02pm

Dialytellus tragicus
Yup, it's a goodie. We use many characters to get at the identification. There is only one known Stenotothorax possible in New York, and it is twice the size of this one. There are few aphodiines in the east with those strange posterior pronotal angles that is not carinate or heavily punctate. One is Dialytes truncatus, but in this picture you can see the protibial teeth are not Dialytes. Thus, Dialytellus!
… Paul Skelley, 13 March, 2012 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively per P. Skelley's suggestion; so nice...
Moved from Aphodiine Dung Beetles.
… v belov, 4 March, 2012 - 1:02pm login or register to post comments

nice... i don't get it [but i'm not in my best shape these days]
looks a bit like a Stenotothorax, but New York...
… v belov, 2 March, 2012 - 7:32pm login or register to post comments

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