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coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Glynn et al. Larval Description and Chaetotaxic Analysis of the Mojave Giant Tiger Beetle, #Amblycheila schwarzi Horn (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #MojaveGiantTigerBeetle
Amblycheila schwarzi instar III. A) Dorsal view, B) Ventral view. Scale bar: 2.0 mm.
May 2, 2026 at 5:55 AM
ashwhiffin.bsky.social
How the creation of a school insect collection project, led to the discovery of Amblycheila cylindriformis in Montana…
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Marian Kirst reminds us of the value of being a “filthy generalist” and the importance of building strong local connections.

#ECN2025
Image montage of the tiger beetle and Marian holding one.
November 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
witchiewoman.bsky.social
First post of my lucky find earlier this Sept. Ignore my cuticles. #entomology #amblycheila #adephaga #tigerbeetle
September 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
feathercritter.bsky.social
I saw another extra small one of those guys at a completely different park last week. Only the one individual, but that park instead seems to be a hotspot for many Great Plains Tiger Beetles. :0

(Amblycheila cylindriformis; a much easier ID. I can do this one!)
3+ cm beetle Beetle close-up. Text reads, "No AI, Copyright S. Morrissey 2026, all rights reserved."
July 2, 2026 at 11:09 AM
bookswain.bsky.social
“Descriptions of new North American Insects, and Observations on some already described. By Thomas Say. Read November 2, 1832.”

Entomologist Thomas Say (1787-1834) was another early member of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Article from the same book as the last two posts in the thread. (5/n)
A page from my 1834 copy of Transactions of the American philosophical society. “ARTICLE XIV. Descriptions of new North American Insects, and Obserations on some already described. By Thomas Say. Read November 2, 1832. AMBLYCHEILA, Say. Labrum transverse much wider than long; mandibles prominent, strongly toothed; labial palpi elongated; basal joint short, entirely con. cealed by the mentum; second joint short, spherical, resting on the edge of the emargination of the mentum; the third joint elongated, cylindric, with rigid hairs; fourth joint enlarging to the extremity where it is truncate, somewhat sinuate; mentum, tooth robust, promi-nent, canaliculate before, acute; antennae, second joint two thirds the length of the third; wings none; elytra united; eyes very small, hem-ispherical, entire; clypes at tip entire. A. cylindriformis, Say, (Manticora) Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. This insect which I found near the Rocky Mountains, I described under the genus Manticora, but judging by the present mutilated state of the specimen it seems to agree better with the Megacephala. It differs from Manticora altogether in form, in the smaller size of the head, and in not having a lobed thorax, &c., but it corresponds in the comparative magnitude of the eyes, the diameter of which is hardly more considerable than that of the basal joint of the antennæ. In the size of the eyes it differs greatly from Megacephala, also in the circumstance that the basal joint of its labial palpi is altogether concealed by the mentum: but it agrees with this genus in form, and is probably VoL. IV.-5 C..” #entomology #bugsky
September 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM