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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Death-watch Beetles (Anobiinae) » Euceratocerini » Xeranobium » Xeranobium cinereum
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long, thin anobiid - Xeranobium cinereum
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

long, thin anobiid - Xeranobium cinereum
Organ Mountains foothills, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
August 6, 2006
Size: 7 - 7.2 mm

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 17 August, 2006 - 9:35pm
Last updated 28 November, 2006 - 7:20pm

Moved
Moved from Xeranobius.
… Jim McClarin, 28 November, 2006 - 7:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Xeranobius laticeps.
… Jim McClarin, 23 November, 2006 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

Ambitious conclusion
In this case, dissection would have easily solved the "sex question"!
To me it seems, because of the large eyes and the look of the tip of abdomen, that this specimen is a male also. The genus is very rich in species, and comparison only will not result in safe species identifications (I´m not even sure use of the R.E.White key will . . .)

with best wishes, Boris
… Boris Büche, 23 November, 2006 - 5:12am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for questioning this one, Boris.
It was silly of me to assume that, because I had never seen one like this before, it must be a solitary "aberrant" species and that a similar one with antennal differences in the NMSU collection *had* to be simply the opposite sex.

Although the New Mexico Fish & Game Department list includes only X. laticeps (listed rather tortuously as Beetle, Store, Drug {Xeranobius laticeps}), Nearctica lists 13 species (scroll way down to their unique spelling of XeranobiUM).

I greatly appreciate the anatomy-based explanations you have given for your conclusions on this and other specimens, Boris. Very educational.

I'll move this back to genus and de-sex it.
… Jim McClarin, 23 November, 2006 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

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