A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Apocrypha sp.
Brown ant-like beetle with punctate elytra and thorax and covered in a sparse, fine, straight pubescence. The head was more hairy. 7mm in length. Family Tenebrionidae. This beetle looks much more like an ant-like flower beetle of the Family Anthicidae, however Apocrypha is still in the Tenebrionidae (although both families are in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea). It has been called a "weird Teneb" and "a surreal anthicomorph tenebrionid", which is just how I see it!
This beetle was running about on the ground at night. Semi-rural residential area, San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, 2,200 meters.
https://bugguide.net/node/view/247262 https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/r... https://bugguide.net/node/view/496079 https://www.naturalista.mx/taxa/491897-A... https://bugguide.net/node/view/247263 https://bugguide.net/node/view/878894 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthicidae...
Spotted on Apr 28, 2019
Submitted on Apr 30, 2019
2 Comments
What a little sneak. Nice job on the legs. Needs to develop an elbow in the antennae. Is it evolving a petiole? ;-)
Great series Lauren! Very cool beetle. Thank you for sharing :) Liana