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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Minute Moss Beetles (Hydraenidae) » Hydraena » circulata group (Hydraena circulata group) » Hydraena americana
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tiny aquatic beetle - Hydraena americana
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

tiny aquatic beetle - Hydraena americana
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
March 28, 2009
Size: 1.75mm
A view of the beetle in the water.

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Contributed by tom murray on 29 March, 2009 - 3:06pm
Last updated 27 October, 2009 - 7:36pm

Moved
Moved from Hydraena.
… tom murray, 27 October, 2009 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ochthebius.
… v belov, 29 March, 2009 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Tim Loh, 29 March, 2009 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments

Nice!
This is an aquatic beetle in the family Hydraenidae, known as minute moss beetles. The adults of this family have a 5-segmented antennal club as in your specimen. They are rarely collected partly because of their habitat as well as their size. Genus looks to be Ochthebius.
… Tim Loh, 29 March, 2009 - 3:36pm login or register to post comments

 
I can understand
why they're not collected often. I wouldn't have even seen this tiny beetle, except that I was looking at something else on the wet leaf at magnification, and accidentally saw this beetle moving. I'll have to keep looking closely at the decaying vegetation I pull out of the water.
… tom murray, 29 March, 2009 - 6:44pm login or register to post comments

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