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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Pimeliinae » Epitragini » Lobometopon » Lobometopon fusiforme
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beetle - Lobometopon fusiforme
Copyright © 2012 Bo Zaremba

beetle - Lobometopon fusiforme
Box Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
September 11, 2012
On rotting cactus fruit.

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beetle - Lobometopon fusiforme beetle - Lobometopon fusiforme
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Contributed by Bo Zaremba on 24 September, 2012 - 6:00pm
Last updated 29 August, 2013 - 8:39pm

Moved
Moved from Lobometopon.
… v belov, 29 August, 2013 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

Lobometopon fusiforme (Casey)
Note on the two laterally-viewed individuals, the elytra are quite tapered to the apex. This distinguishes Lobometopon from Bothrotes, which curves more abruptly to a rounded back end.
… Jason Botz, 29 August, 2013 - 7:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Bo Zaremba, 28 September, 2012 - 9:29am login or register to post comments

Epitragini... thinking, Bothrotes
but not sure what else of that habitus may occur in AZ
… v belov, 24 September, 2012 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

 
down there...I am thinking Lobometopon
… Blaine Mathison, 24 September, 2012 - 6:12pm login or register to post comments

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