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Harpalus actiosus Casey - Harpalus actiosus - female
Copyright © 2012 Mike Quinn

Harpalus actiosus Casey - Harpalus actiosus - Female
Dick Nichols District Park, sw Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
September 23, 2012
Det. P. W. Messer, 22 January, 2013 (by microscopic examination of this specimen)

coll'ed at UV light

spmn in the PWMC, Wisconsin
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 24 September, 2012 - 3:35pm
Last updated 30 November, 2021 - 4:17pm

Moved
Moved from Harpalus actiosus.
… Mike Quinn, 22 January, 2013 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Harpalus actiosus.
… Mike Quinn, 22 January, 2013 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Pseudoophonus.
… v belov, 22 January, 2013 - 5:30pm login or register to post comments

Harpalus actiosus Casey
is best fit based on my microscopic examination of this female specimen which is now a photo-voucher in the P.W.Messer collection. Thanks Mike.

Charactersitic combination: Elytra densely & uniformly punctate + anterior pronotal border slightly angularly emarginate (difficult to see in photo) + large size (ABL ~ 16 mm) + Texas location. This combination rules out the two most similar species: H. protractus and H. vagans (formerly H. longicollis).
… Peter W. Messer, 22 January, 2013 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Harpalinae.
… v belov, 24 September, 2012 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments

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