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smaller histerid beetle from entrance of gopher tortoise burrow
Copyright © 2009 David Almquist

smaller histerid beetle from entrance of gopher tortoise burrow
Green Swamp, Pasco County, Florida, USA
August 20, 2009
I thought that this might be Chelyoxenus xerobatis http://bugguide.net/node/view/160494/bgimage at first. The collection circumstances fit, but it doesn't look quite right, so I'm thinking maybe Geomysaprinus floridae or an incidental surface sp. I have not gotten it under a scope to see whether the claws are unequal, but they appear equal in the ventral picture that I took of this specimen.

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smaller histerid beetle from entrance of gopher tortoise burrow smaller histerid beetle from entrance of gopher tortoise burrow
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Contributed by David Almquist on 23 August, 2009 - 12:45am
Last updated 24 August, 2009 - 9:41am

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