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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Crawling Water Beetles (Haliplidae) » Peltodytes
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Crawling Water Beetle - Peltodytes
Copyright © 2005 Robin McLeod

Crawling Water Beetle - Peltodytes
Ailsa Craig, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
June 10, 2005
Size: about 3 mm
Found on porch at night along with 2 diving beetles, a water boatman, and the regular non-aquatic stuff. I think this is Peltodytes (Haliplidae), shown at Cedar Creek and elsewhere on the web.
Bland's How to Know the Insects says "Some adults in the genus Peltodytes have two black spots on the posterior margin of the pronotum whereas those in the genus Haliplus lack these two spots."
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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 11 June, 2005 - 11:32pm
Last updated 15 June, 2005 - 11:40pm

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Yes, this is a Peltodytes
… J. H. Epler, 21 November, 2005 - 7:45am login or register to post comments

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