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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Staphylinina » Ontholestes » Gold-and-brown Rove Beetle (Ontholestes cingulatus)
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Gold and Brown Rove Beetle - Ontholestes cingulatus
Copyright © 2016 Lennox Saunders

Gold and Brown Rove Beetle - Ontholestes cingulatus
Mayfair, Saskatoon,, Saskatchewan, Canada
June 13, 2016
I don't even know where to begin looking to find out what this is. I assume it's some kind of immature insect but I don't have a clue. I found it quite by accident while I was watching a pair of male garden carrion beetles fighting over two females. I saw some movement at my feet but couldn't make out what it was as it blended in so well with the broken pavement. It was moving in and out of a broken crack in the cement.
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Contributed by Lennox Saunders on 23 July, 2016 - 4:50pm
Last updated 26 September, 2022 - 2:45pm

Nice picture. They do exist.
Found one of these today
A moving yellow spot, nymph for something?
I had to catch it to get a decent photo.
… Steve McKechnie, 19 August, 2020 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Lennox Saunders, 23 July, 2016 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

Ontholestes cingulatus, methinks
adult
… metrioptera, 23 July, 2016 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow, that's great! The info s
Wow, that's great! The info says it eats carrion and fungus. I guess I should thank the neighbourhood cat for getting into my garbage and leaving a big chicken bone on the ground to lure this guy and the carrion beetles.
… Lennox Saunders, 23 July, 2016 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

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