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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) » Deltochilini » Boreocanthon » Boreocanthon simplex
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dung beetle - Boreocanthon simplex
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

dung beetle - Boreocanthon simplex
Calpine, Sierra County, California, USA
June 29, 2006
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Contributed by tom murray on 10 July, 2006 - 10:20pm
Last updated 25 July, 2023 - 9:20pm

Moved
Moved from Canthon simplex simplex.
… v belov, 25 July, 2023 - 9:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Canthon (Boreocanthon) simplex.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 31 January, 2008 - 7:41am login or register to post comments

The only canthon like genus i
The only canthon like genus in northern California is boreocanthon, but I have never seen it before. was it found in cow dung?
… William Ericson, 11 July, 2006 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

 
Can't remember for sure
if I found it by flipping over a cow patty, or what.
… tom murray, 11 July, 2006 - 5:24am login or register to post comments

 
Canthon simplex
According to the latest list - theres only the one sp. in California.

Boreocanthon is now treated as a subgenus of Canthon. They are smaller (less than or equal to 10mm) and have the clypeus with four large teeth (quadridentate) - I can't really see that in this photo. We have a couple spp. of this group in the east as well - none in guide though. Many of the old genera in this group have been downgraded, including Glaphyrocanthon. Melanocanthon is still a genus, and for good reason.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 11 July, 2006 - 7:09am login or register to post comments

 
Phillip
thanks for the info and the page set up.
… tom murray, 12 July, 2006 - 6:07am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Phil.
Nice to see an image of this species. I remember the first time I found a pair in Oregon. Totally surprised we had "tumblebugs" there:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 11 July, 2006 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

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