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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Stenolophina » Acupalpus » subgenus Acupalpus (Acupalpus subgenus Acupalpus) » Acupalpus hydropicus
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Acupalpus hydropicus - female
Copyright © 2016 Curt Harden

Acupalpus hydropicus - Female
Wildcat Hollow, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
March 8, 2016
24hr Berlese, leaf litter from seepage wetland with lots of skunk cabbage.

This is one of my favorite carabid species! It's not well-represented in either of the large collections I've visited (1 in VMNH, ~12 in CMNH) but it can be really common in the right spots (as Tom has demonstrated on this site). It seems to like a thin layer of fine leaf litter, in close proximity to water. My best spot for collecting it is a narrow shaded stream with wide flat banks that are covered in finely broken-down dead leaves.
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Contributed by Curt Harden on 17 July, 2016 - 3:04pm

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