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darkling beetle

Lobopoda sp.

Photo by Tom15
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Comments (5)
Tom15
Bayucca, the feedback I got was a Lobopoda sp. and that looks like a good match.
Tom15
For now I'll just call it a beetle sp. I'll check with a couple beetle experts and see what they say.
bayucca
Yes, but yours has some "hooks" at the end of the pronotum and head/eye relations (location, size) made me thinking rather Buprestidae than Tenebrionidae.
Tom15
It might be a Buprestid, but I thought the antennae were too long for that. Its long legs and antennae remind me of this one I had identified from Honduras. http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/133628678 Then again it could be something other than what either of us are thinking:-)
bayucca
Looks for me more like a Buprestidae.

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