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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Fruit and Flower Chafers (Cetoniinae) » Cremastocheilini » Anteater Scarab Beetles (Cremastocheilus) » subgenus Macropodina (Cremastocheilus subgenus Macropodina) » Cremastocheilus beameri
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Darkling Beetle - Cremastocheilus beameri
Copyright © 2012 Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara

Darkling Beetle - Cremastocheilus beameri
San Pedro River Valley, SE of San Manuel, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
September 8, 2012
A rather square shaped darling beetle; if my memory serves me right, I think he was playing dead, but I wonder if it really wasn't dead (it appears to be excreting a liquid from it's abdomen). Any ideas what it is? Thank you.

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Contributed by Lon Brehmer and Enriqueta Flores-Guevara on 1 December, 2012 - 5:41pm
Last updated 1 December, 2012 - 8:43pm

awesome addition! thanks much, colleagues.
Moved from Anteater Scarab Beetles.
… v belov, 1 December, 2012 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

"square shaped darling"
indeed! no k's required

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 1 December, 2012 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

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