Coleoptera

This will be a section dedicated to Louisiana Coleoptera. I encourage all to post their pictures of species not seen here. Hopefully before long, we will be collecting some more Dynastes in LeCompte. Here are two pictures to kick things off: Eastern hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus (left) and six-spotted tiger beetle, Cincindela sexguttata (right).

















This male Dynastes was originally collected by Steven Barney at the famous LeCompte Chevron we all know and love so well. After breeding the male to his females at home, he gave the specimen to me, where it promptly died two days later. The Cincindela is one of three I collected at the Barney property in Washington. This was the best specimen exemplifying the spots of the distal end of the elytra.

James


5/2/06 9:03pm

Here is a pic I took this weekend of one of the C. scrutator we found the "key weekend":
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Steven