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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Opatrini » Blapstinus » Blapstinus dilatatus
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Small Black Beetle - Blapstinus dilatatus
Copyright © 2012 Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara

Small Black Beetle - Blapstinus dilatatus
San Pedro River Valley, SE of San Manuel, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
February 24, 2012
Size: small
Small black beetle, immobile from cold weather under a rock, any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Contributed by Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara on 26 March, 2012 - 7:57pm
Last updated 16 March, 2024 - 3:53pm

must be this one...
Moved from Blapstinus.
… v belov, 16 March, 2024 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved very tentatively
Moved from Darkling Beetles.
… v belov, 16 October, 2012 - 1:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 21 May, 2012 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 8 April, 2012 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

teneb... maybe of opatrine [in the old sense] extraction
unless an accurate measurement is provided, the size field is better left blank
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… v belov, 26 March, 2012 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

 
interesting...
doesn't look familiar. Maybe a Gonocephalum or an odd Blapstinus? Not Ulus or Metaponium (the other common desert 'under rock' species)
… Blaine Mathison, 26 March, 2012 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

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