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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Flower Beetles (Scraptiidae) » Scraptiinae » Allopodini » Allopoda
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Another small plain looking beetle - Allopoda
Copyright © 2014 Jim Moore

Another small plain looking beetle - Allopoda
In Westwood - elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
June 4, 2013
Size: Body length 4mm
Found deceased on the date given. Perhaps another Ernobius specimen?
My thanks again!

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Contributed by Jim Moore on 3 May, 2014 - 1:23am
Last updated 5 March, 2024 - 5:02pm

Moved
This is one of the western forms of Allopoda. Schaeffer described one species from AZ and one from CA - but there are 4-5 drastically different species based on genitalic dissections and we have no idea which ones might match up to the described names.

This might make a good graduate project for someone who loves little brown tenebrionoids!

Moved from Zilora.
… Andrew Johnston, 5 March, 2024 - 5:02pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks again -- i stand corrected
hope you bring more insights and order into BG heteromeran section, esp. the scraptiids
… v belov, 5 March, 2024 - 5:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively; nice yet badly punished bug
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 3 May, 2014 - 5:51am login or register to post comments

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