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Hydraena pennsylvanica
Photo#261631
Copyright © 2009
tom murray
tiny aquatic beetle -
Hydraena pennsylvanica
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
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tom murray
, 27 October, 2009 - 7:36pm
Moved
Moved from
Ochthebius
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v belov
, 29 March, 2009 - 3:38pm
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Beetles
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Tim Loh
, 29 March, 2009 - 3:37pm
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
.
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Tim Loh
, 29 March, 2009 - 3:36pm
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.
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tom murray
, 29 March, 2009 - 6:44pm
