Beetle identification, Central Sierra Foothills, California

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Rayal Sonora, CA Feb 13, 2017

Found this beetle today 02132017 Can anyone ID it please.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Feb 13, 2017

Looks like Omus californicus, known as the California night-stalking tiger beetle - http://swellbugs.blogspot.com/2011/06/omus-californicus.html

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Rayal Sonora, CA Feb 17, 2017

Thanks Flapdoodle. I saw your other answers. If you would like to see my other macro- beetles
https://www.flickr.com/photos/36076519@N00/albums/72157646220647461

Here is a beetle I found at a gas station on I-40 in New Mexico. It was the size of your thumb.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Feb 17, 2017

This is a ten-lined June beetle, Polyphylla decemlineata - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/84612-Polyphylla-decemlineata

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Rayal Sonora, CA Feb 20, 2017

You are a champ. Thanks.

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