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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Clown Beetles (Histeridae) » Saprininae » Saprinini » Saprinus » subgenus Saprinus (Saprinus subgenus Saprinus) » Saprinus felipae
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Histeridae - Saprinus felipae
Copyright © 2013 Mark S. Romero

Histeridae - Saprinus felipae
San Mateo, Cibola County, New Mexico, USA
July 25, 2008
Size: ~9mm
Near San Mateo Creek off of NM605 on the side of the road under a dead owl. The biggest Hister beetle I have come across.

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Contributed by Mark S. Romero on 23 March, 2013 - 6:49pm
Last updated 30 March, 2013 - 10:32pm

Moved tentatively... cool!
hope you guys get in touch so we know for sure

Moved from Saprininae.
… v belov, 25 March, 2013 - 8:07pm login or register to post comments

Tentatively, Saprinus felipae
Mark, you may have picked up a goodie there (I am interested in seeing specimens). Based on the long tarsal claws, anteriorly narrowed prosternal strial loop, apparant lack of interstrial punctuation in the basal half of the elytra, apparent lack of aciculation between the elytral punctures lateroapically, and weak longitudinal pygidal carina this looks like S. felipae, an uncommonly collected species known from prairie dog burrows. If the elytra are heavily punctate in the interstriae (i.e. lateral to the basal "mirror" between the 4th discal and sutural striae), and the punctures are aciculate (looks like longitudinal scratches between punctures) in the lateroapical elytral thirds or so, then it is the very common S. lugens.
… William B. Warner, 25 March, 2013 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

nice; ventral & pygidium may be critical --pls add
prosternum, sculpture important
angles:

Moved from Clown Beetles.
… v belov, 25 March, 2013 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

 
I will try
get to them today, if not tomorrow.
… Mark S. Romero, 25 March, 2013 - 11:55am login or register to post comments

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