Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Register
·
Log In
Home
Guide
ID Request
Recent
Frass
Forums
Donate
Help
Clickable Guide
Calendar
Upcoming Events
Registration
is open for the
2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho
July 24-27
Moth submissions
from
National Moth Week 2023
Photos of
insects
and
people
from the
2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico
, July 20-24
Photos of
insects
and
people
from the
Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana
, April 28-May 2
Photos of
insects
and
people
from the
2019 gathering in Louisiana
, July 25-27
Photos of
insects
and
people
from the
2018 gathering in Virginia
, July 27-29
Previous events
Taxonomy
Browse
Info
Images
Links
Books
Data
Home
» Guide »
Arthropods (Arthropoda)
»
Hexapods (Hexapoda)
»
Insects (Insecta)
»
Beetles (Coleoptera)
»
Polyphaga
»
Series Cucujiformia
»
Tenebrionoidea
»
Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae)
»
Tenebrioninae
»
Amphidorini
»
Desert Stink Beetles (Eleodes)
»
subgenus Xysta (Eleodes subgenus Xysta)
»
Eleodes longicollis
Photo#817723
Copyright © 2013
john and jane balaban
Smooth darkling -
Eleodes longicollis
NM 12, north of Aragon, Catron County, New Mexico, USA
July 24, 2013
Size: ~23mm
We continued on US 60 through Magdalena to Datil, and then south on NM 12. We stopped at the continental divide to photograph some wildflowers and these guys too.
Images of this individual:
tag all
tag
·
login
or
register
to post comments
Contributed by
john and jane balaban
on 4 August, 2013 - 10:19pm
Last updated 1 February, 2024 - 6:37pm
Promus?
Can't see any of the characters (pronotal angles, prosternum, etc) but overall it sure looks like E. subnitens - but the NM populations might prove to be something else. This could also be something else, like an oddly formed E. longicollis.
…
Andrew Johnston
, 28 June, 2018 - 6:30pm
login
or
register
to post comments
Moved
Moved from
Beetles
.
…
roar
, 8 August, 2013 - 8:34pm
login
or
register
to post comments
Eleodes sp.
…
v belov
, 8 August, 2013 - 3:17am
login
or
register
to post comments
Comment viewing options
Flat list - collapsed
Flat list - expanded
Threaded list - collapsed
Threaded list - expanded
Date - newest first
Date - oldest first
10 comments per page
30 comments per page
50 comments per page
70 comments per page
90 comments per page
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.