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Southwestern Ironclad Beetle

On · Category: Darkling and Ironclad Beetles · 2 Comments

Subject: what is the name of this bug
Location: texas
May 22, 2012 7:58 pm
can you identify this bug?
Signature: Adele

Southwestern Ironclad Beetle

Hi Adele,
This interesting beetle is a Southwestern Ironclad Beetle, Zopherus nodulosus haldemani.  BugGuide only reports them from Texas and we believe all of our examples are also from Texas.

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2 Responses to Southwestern Ironclad Beetle

  1. Victoria Hopper Mylne Grovier says:
    May 23, 2012 at 9:23 am

    very cool bug!

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  2. Sallie Thomas says:
    May 26, 2012 at 8:07 pm

    I love this picture, and have been thinking up gary-larsen-esque captions!

    Reply

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