FAMILY TENEBRIONIDAE (Darkling Beetles)

Coleoptera-Tenebrionidae-Bothrotes plumbeus-Darkling Beetles FEMALE (I)

Bothrotes plumbeus

Nogales, Santa Cruz County, Arizona
Coordinates: 31.387425, -110.959208
Elevation: 3,661 ft
October 20, 2021
Size: 12 mm
12 of these beetles were eating large bones of an unidentified mammal. The bones appeared to be only the knee.
Determined by Salvador Vitanza
Confirmed by Isaac Fox

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