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Name this beetle... (ie bug not musician)
 My wife found this guy near her car in Tucson last night. He's right at 3" long.
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07-09-2006, 07:54 AM
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Looks like a Darkling Beetle. Fused wing case. Cannot fly.
 If the antennae were longer, it could be a Sawyer Beetle.
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And she brought it home to you? What a wife!
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I aint being racist, but they all look alike to me.
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My official guess is that the beetle is a Derobrachus geminatus or palo verde root borer. http://bugguide.net/node/view/24540/bgpage This guy's so large you can actually hear him breathing!
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She wants to study word origins?
Sorry. I had to do that.
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'73 Superbeetle
oops, sorry, wrong beetle.
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