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The Beetles

Cicindelidae -- Tiger Beetles
Tiger Beetle sp., Cicindela politula
The current source of documentation for this species in Kerr County is the Tiger Beetles of North America database of the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (April 2003). As additional data becomes available on their, or other, records they will be posted here.

Tiger Beetle sp., Cicindela ocellata
These photos represent a new county record for this species.

tiger beetle sp., Cicindela ocellata
Camp Rio Vista, 17 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


red ladybug (ladybird beetle) sp.

red ladybug sp.
On power pole near midnight, Camp Rio Vista, 29 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


red labybug sp., ranching aphids
Camp Rio Vista, 1 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

green ladybird beetle sp.

green ladybird beetle sp.
On Thoroughwort, Mountain Home roadcut, Jct. Texas 27 and Texas 41, 30 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

flower beetle sp.

flower beetle sp.
On Brooomweed, Western Canyon drainage, Texas 39, west county, 19 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Carabidae -- Carabid Beetles
carabid beetle sp.

carabid beetle sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 15 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci



carabid beetle sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 11 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Scarabidae -- Scarab and Dung Beetles

rhinoceros-horned scarab beetle sp. (dung beetle sp.)


rhinoceros-horned scarab beetle sp. (dung beetle sp.)
Camp Rio Vista, 14 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Brown Rhinoceros Beetle, Strategus antaeus


Brown Rhinoceros Beetle, Strategus antaeus
Collected, Camp Rio Vista, June 1999
photos © by tony gallucci

Eastern Hercules Beetle, Dynastes tityus

Eastern Hercules Beetle, Dynastes tityus, female
Collected, Camp Rio Vista, June 2000
photos © by tony gallucci


Eastern Hercules Beetle, Dynastes tityus, male
Collected, Camp Rio Vista, July 2001
photos © by tony gallucci




The following additional species of Tiger Beetles have not yet been reported from Kerr County, but have been reported from one of the immediate surrounding counties which share a county line with Kerr (Kendall, Kimble, Edwards, Real), and might reasonably be expected to occur here. No additional species have been reported from Bandera County. No species at all are listed as documented from Gillespie, Edwards, Kendall or Real Counties. The list includes Common Name, Scientific name (Counties where documented). All county record information here is derived from the Tiger Beetles of North America database at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (April 2003) in range maps and the searchable database, for which i am much indebted and appreciative.

Cicindelidae
Tiger Beetle sp., Cicindela schauppii (Kimble)