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dark gray beetle - Microtonus sericans
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

dark gray beetle - Microtonus sericans
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 2, 2007
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Contributed by tom murray on 30 August, 2007 - 8:23pm
Last updated 22 September, 2007 - 10:39pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… tom murray, 22 September, 2007 - 10:39pm login or register to post comments

Melandryidae: Microtonus sericans
A bad angle for identification.
… Donald S. Chandler, 22 September, 2007 - 9:27pm login or register to post comments

reminds me of
this one:
I unfrassed it, because I feel we may get an ID some day (and photo is not bad).
… Boris Büche, 1 September, 2007 - 4:33am login or register to post comments

 
Ha, ha
It was still in Frass so I unfrassed it for you :-)
… Jim McClarin, 1 September, 2007 - 5:27am login or register to post comments

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