My final evening in New Mexico I collected small-to-tiny beetles that came to incandescent lights in a carport, including several of these distinctly marked aphodiine dung beetles.
Although the view may not be of this individual, here's what the underside looks like:
The beetle in the foreground is the Hairy Fungus Beetle
Typhaea stercoria (family Mycetophagidae), which was overwhelmingly the most numerous visitor to the lights.
Contributed by
Jim McClarin on 22 August, 2006 - 6:08pm
Last updated 28 August, 2023 - 10:54am