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Field Notes

Description:

A kind of beetle, orange and black stripe

Habitat:

bare land, near highway, mountainous area

Species ID Suggestions

Micrencaustes beetle

Micrencaustes sp.

Reference Link
Ornithoptera80
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Comments (4)
Saturniidae27
Most likely some species of Nesitis. https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id354284/
LaurenZarate
Could this be an Erotylid? The front tarsi look more like that family than like a Teneb...Some Erotylids have beaded antennae without a club.
LinhPhuong
Thanks EnvUnlimited and Tom15. I do agree with Tom that this bug is more likely the Darkling beetle. But i cant find the beetle that have the colors exactly as the one I took the photo.
Tom15
It has the colors of a burying beetle, but the beaded antennae without the club ends are wrong for Silphidae. The antennae remind me of Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae).
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PublishedMarch 6, 2013

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