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Carrion Beetle Larva - Oiceoptoma inaequale
Copyright © 2005 Matthew Roth

Carrion Beetle Larva - Oiceoptoma inaequale
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 6, 2005
Size: 1/2 inch
I think this is a wood louse of some sort. I found it under a dead animal. There were about ten of these there, but this was the largest.
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Contributed by Matthew Roth on 10 May, 2005 - 7:22am
Last updated 20 November, 2005 - 8:12am

Carrion Beetle Larva
I think this is probably the larval form of some species of carrion beetle. Their form is pretty distinctive.
… Troy Bartlett, 11 May, 2005 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

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