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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae) » Oedemerinae » Asclerini » Oxycopis » Oxycopis thoracica
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False Blister Beetle - Oxycopis thoracica
Copyright © 2013 Robert Lord Zimlich

False Blister Beetle - Oxycopis thoracica
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
June 10, 2013
Size: 7-8mm
I was thinking Oxycopis thoracica except this is twice that size.

EDIT: I've recently started using my MP-E with my full-frame camera, which means I'm shooting at higher magnifications. I shoot this at 2X, which would half what I measured in PhotoShop. This beetle was still on my sheet and I verified measurement at 7-8mm.

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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 10 June, 2013 - 7:08pm
Last updated 24 February, 2015 - 2:14pm

Moved
Moved from Oxycopis.
… v belov, 24 February, 2015 - 2:14pm login or register to post comments

interesting
Moved from ID Request.

huge size variability is not uncommon among those developing in very dry wood, but this is not the case here, i suspect
… v belov, 10 June, 2013 - 8:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Corrected size ...
7-8 mm (actual)
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 10 June, 2013 - 9:26pm login or register to post comments

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