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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » May Beetles and Junebugs (Melolonthinae) » Hopliini » Monkey Beetles (Hoplia) » Hoplia callipyge
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scarab - Hoplia callipyge
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

scarab - Hoplia callipyge
Milford, Lassen County, California, USA
July 3, 2006
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Contributed by tom murray on 22 July, 2006 - 6:10pm
Last updated 27 November, 2009 - 11:13am

Moved tentatively -- will show around to check
Moved from Hoplia.
… v belov, 27 November, 2009 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

 
By excluding the other three spp.
occurring in CA, I'd say yes this is the rather variable, and widespread Hoplia callipyge; sackeni has light colored elongate scales, hirta has rather dark integumentary color, a bilobed clypeus, & elongate scales visible only under high magnification, & dispar obviously too different.
… Hartmut Wisch, 30 November, 2009 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Hartmut -- ton of thanks for the scholarly input
your help means a lot to me
… v belov, 30 November, 2009 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

Hoplia sp.
While not true for the rest of the world, the single tarsal claws are diagnostic for this genus here.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 22 July, 2006 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Phillip
I should have remembered that.
… tom murray, 22 July, 2006 - 7:52pm login or register to post comments

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