SCARABS Hon k’wat dech’ap’ba, a:wiyanna Occasional Issue Number 20 Print ISSN 1937-8343 Online ISSN 1937-8351 August, 2007 Killer Phileurini - or - WITHIN THIS ISSUE How Come Some Diplos Are Hairy? Killer Phileurini ................ 1 Dispatches Speculations from the Diplo Desk - Part 4 NSF Funds Scarab Research ........................... 22 by Scott McCleve 2210 E. 13th Street In Past Years - II ............. 23 Douglas, AZ 85607
[email protected] Letter to the Editors ....... 26 Have you held a living Phileurini (= (1959, Bull. So. Cal. Acad. Sci. 58 “phileurine”) in your hand? Are you [1]:27-33), to wit, “In two cases sure it was alive? How could you scarab larvae were present in the tell? It pretty much did nothing, roots, in one instance associated right? A few Hemiphileurus illatus with the adult scarab, Phileurus (LeConte) have pooped a semi- illatus LeConte [=Hemiphileurus liquid smear on my hand. But illatus (LeConte)], which had otherwise a live phileurine in the worked its way up a burrow in hand might be dead, except for a root and destroyed a larvae of the resistance they exert when you Plinthocoelium.” BACK ISSUES Available At These Sites: try to move something, like a leg. They are kind of like those iron- Mont Cazier, a student of Coleopterists Society clad tenebrionid beetles that go predatory behavior in scarabs, www.coleopsoc.org/ catatonic when you handle them. and co-author M. A. Mortenson, nwslttrs.shtml Most scarabs go quiescent and noted (1965, J. Kansas Ent. Soc., University of Nebraska tuck in all their appendages, but 38:1:29) that “This [see just above] www-museum.unl.edu/ they soon begin to fidget and try to appears to be the first and only research/entomology/ escape.