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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Elaphrinae » Elaphrini » Marsh Ground Beetles (Elaphrus)
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Marsh Ground Beetle - Elaphrus
Copyright © 2003 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Marsh Ground Beetle - Elaphrus
Eastern, Oklahoma, USA
March 22, 2003
Size: 5mm
Elaphrus sp.
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 9 February, 2005 - 10:20pm
Last updated 8 March, 2005 - 2:59am

I gotta find me one of those
It looks downright bejeweled!
… Troy Bartlett, 9 February, 2005 - 11:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Look on mud flats.
Elaphrus are almost always associated with mud, even around puddles and other ephemeral pools. They like to have vegetation handy to hide in, though.
… Eric R. Eaton, 11 February, 2005 - 12:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Marsh Ground Beetle
They are.
What you can not see in the photo is that inside the white spots is a blue spot.
I could not get as close as I wanted because like all ground beetles it was very fast.
This was on the shore of a lake.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 10 February, 2005 - 8:03am login or register to post comments

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