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Darkling beetle in New Mexico, USA. (August 2007) (photo by Mary Ellen St. John)

This darkling beetle is moving over a substrate composed of gypsum sand, which is a rare sediment mineralogy. The gypsum forms by evaporation of playa lakes in a southern New Mexico valley. White Sands National Monument is a large gypsum dune field immediately downwind of the lakes.

Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Hexapoda, Insecta, Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae

Locality: White Sands National Monument, west of the town of Alamogordo, southern New Mexico, USA

See info. at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkling_beetle" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkling_beetle</a> and

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_National_Monument" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_National_Monument</a>
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