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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Ontholestes » Gold-and-brown Rove Beetle (Ontholestes cingulatus)
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Odd bug, never seen anything like it. - Ontholestes cingulatus
Copyright © 2009 Thomas Kent

Odd bug, never seen anything like it. - Ontholestes cingulatus
Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
September 20, 2009
Size: 3 - 4 cm
My dad's a bit of a Lepidoptera guy... here's what he has to say about this guy:

"Looks a little like a rockcrawler (Grylloblatta spp.), in which case it is very rare. But the eyes look wrong. Termites don't have such pronounced ocelli (eyes). The antennae look like beetle (Coleoptera) antennae. Could it be an immature Stenocorus nubifer? (Flower Lepturine)? Or Necydalis cavipennis? (Hornet Ionghorn)? I have no idea."

I should mention that it kept flipping it's bright yellow tail 90 degrees straight up. I wish I'd gotten some better angles, but he didn't stick around very long. My dad and I are both very curious to know what he is, any help would be great.
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Contributed by Thomas Kent on 24 September, 2009 - 6:34pm
Last updated 25 September, 2009 - 11:59am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Only one other record of this species later than August in the Guide, only one other record from Ontario. I like data points, I'm moving it despite the blurriness.
… Abigail M. Parker, 25 September, 2009 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

Looks to us like a Rove Beetle
Check there while you wait for a better ID from one of the Coleopterists
… john and jane balaban, 24 September, 2009 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Rove Beetle!
Ontholestes cingulatus (Gold-and-brown Rove Beetle). I've looked at the pictures, and I'm sure this is the guy. Thank-you!
… Thomas Kent, 24 September, 2009 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

 
great call; O. cingulatus indeed
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… v belov, 24 September, 2009 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

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