Hellburnt diabolical ironclad - neat color variation from BIC!

[arizonablue]

Ordered two of these beauties from Bugs In Cyberspace - a color variation called Hellburnt. Instead of being all black, these little guys have pale orange/brown markings! This one is very well camouflaged on his cholla!

 

[Oak]

I've seen them before. Didn't know it was a variation! 

 

[Dynastes TItyus hunter]

Cool variation of Diabol iron!

 

[Reyes]

Ordered two of these beauties from Bugs In Cyberspace - a color variation called Hellburnt. Instead of being all black, these little guys have pale orange/brown markings! This one is very well camouflaged on his cholla!

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What I'm curious about is how they got that color.

Did they get sprayed by another darkling beetle, or is it something else?

Please help me.

 

[Goliathus]

It's just a naturally occurring color morph of Nosoderma (Phloeodes) diabolicum, possibly from a particular area.  I've only ever heard BIC use the name "Hellburnt" to refer to this morph - wonder if they came up with that name?

 

[Ratmosphere]

Sick colorway!

 

[Hisserdude]

It's just a naturally occurring color morph of Nosoderma (Phloeodes) diabolicum, possibly from a particular area.  I've only ever heard BIC use the name "Hellburnt" to refer to this morph - wonder if they came up with that name?

Yeah, just a locality based color variation. BTW, it's Phloeodes, not Nosoderma, they were moved back to Phloeodes but I still see people labeling them as Nosoderma for some reason.