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Flat Darkling Beetle

Cossyphus (Acontodactylus) limbatus

Description:

7 mm

Habitat:

Garden

Notes:

Thank you LaurenZarate for help with the I.D.

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12 Comments

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

I sure would love to find one of these! I guess we don't have these in the Americas. The ones in Australia are rounder and this one is more elongate and looks more like some kind of Lampyrid. Very neat.

LennyWorthington
LennyWorthington 10 years ago

This was down to you Lauren.There are many wonderful beasts here in Thailand.I must post more stuff I can't I.D.

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

So glad you found the exact species! Good work!

Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander 10 years ago

I've never seen this before! Thanks for sharing Lenny :)

LennyWorthington
LennyWorthington 10 years ago

Thanks Mark.It was mostly down to Lauren for the I.D.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Yes pie-dish beetle! Good find.

LennyWorthington
LennyWorthington 10 years ago

Lauren.You did it for me.
I found this excellent paper.
List of specimens of the tribe Cossyphini (Coleoptera:
Tenebrionidae) kept in the National Museum, Praha.
And narrowed it down to.
1. Cossyphus (Acontodactylus) limbatus Pascoe, 1887
Cossyphus (Acontodactylus) limbatus Pascoe, 1887: SCUPOLA (2000): 207.
Material examined. CAMBODIA: ‘Cambodia mer., Takeo, 5.v.[19]84, Frühbauer lgt.’, 2 spec. (1 NMPC, 1 JHAC);
‘Cambodia centr., Phnom Penh, 20.12.[19]84, Frühbauer lgt.’, 1 spec. (NMPC).
Distribution. Species known from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and probably also
from the Philippines (SCUPOLA 2000).
Thank you so much.

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

Might be this one: Cossyphus sp. (Fam. Tenebrionidae), Myanmar
http://www.pbase.com/rovebeetle/mostly_b....

LennyWorthington
LennyWorthington 10 years ago

Thank you Lauren
Looks good.
I'll do more research.
Better pics are not easy they are so small and fast

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

Could this be a flat Darkling Beetle Tribe Heleini of the Tenebrionidae?

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 10 years ago

Great find.

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Looks for me like a Lampyridae, Firefly??

LennyWorthington
Spotted by
LennyWorthington

จังหวัดชัยภูมิ, Thailand

Spotted on Apr 23, 2014
Submitted on Apr 23, 2014

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