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Tenebrionoidea
Small brown beetle. The closest ID I could find was the Somaticus Aeneus, Tar Darkling Beetle
Spotted on May 20, 2012
Submitted on May 26, 2012
8 Comments
This looks a lot like a tenebrionid to me. Or a darkling beetle...
There is a further complication here in that the soil in the area where the photo was taken is red and the beetle might in fact be more black that the reddish brown it is on the photos. Have been searching, but not found an ID yet.
Yes.. its look close here.. http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-...
May be I misjudged its antenna style...
I agree with LarsKorb that it is not a weevil as I first thought. It has not bent (geniculate) antennae as weevils do..
Looks more like a type of Burying Beetle (Silphidae) to me...
This reminds me of a similar one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/788...
Look to be Tree bark Beetle of Curculionidae family
Wow, nice one :)