Identify this beetle bug?

Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker · September 4, 2019, 2:22pm

Pic. Central South Carolina.

jz78817 · September 4, 2019, 2:36pm

blister beetle?

Darren_Garrison · September 4, 2019, 4:20pm

Don’t know what it is (Google Lens comes up with some similar but insufficiently similar species) but it is definitely not a blister beetle–morphology is way off.

Joeu · September 4, 2019, 4:33pm

Looks like Asphaera lustrans, I think.

Darren_Garrison · September 4, 2019, 4:39pm

Apparently Asphaera lustrans is just the name of its crotch…

Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker · September 4, 2019, 5:18pm

Thanks. Sure looks like it. Great introductory post!