Florida Metallic Tiger Beetle - Tetracha floridana

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Florida Metallic Tiger Beetle - Tetracha floridana -

Seminole, Tara Cay Sound, Pinellas County, Florida, USA
October 20, 2009

Closeup of elytral apices, showing the narrow and divergent anterior lobes of the apical lunules that distinguish it from the closely related Tetracha carolina.

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Florida Metallic Tiger Beetle - Tetracha floridana - male

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Contributed by Ted C. MacRae on 1 November, 2009 - 10:33pm

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