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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Elaphrinae » Elaphrini » Marsh Ground Beetles (Elaphrus)
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Ground Beetle 5 - Elaphrus
Copyright © 2008 Tim Loh

Ground Beetle 5 - Elaphrus
Bow River, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
August 2, 2008
Size: 6 mm
Collected from a marshy area near the river; Elaphrus sp.?

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Contributed by Tim Loh on 22 November, 2008 - 2:38pm
Last updated 30 November, 2008 - 1:02am

Elaphrus, yes
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… v belov, 22 November, 2008 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
will put this in genus page for now...have to get a key for species id..after looking through some images on the web of different species, they all start to look the same the more I tried to study them...:-/
… Tim Loh, 22 November, 2008 - 8:09pm login or register to post comments

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