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Flat-bodied, hairy rove beetle - Acidota subcarinata

Flat-bodied, hairy rove beetle - Acidota subcarinata
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
October 31, 2005
Size: 5 mm
Found a couple of this species on a stack of pressure-treated lumber. I suspect they were flying and just happened to land there. They struck me as odd for rove beetles -- too wide and too flat. I later saw, with magnification, that their fairly even coat of hairs was another unusual characteristic, as well as their all-brown coloration. I suspect they are built for hunting under bark, but I've never seen this species in my search for underbark beetles.

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Thank you, Don,
for honing your ID skills on my images.

Acidota subcarinata
Our most common species, by far.

Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Acidota sp.
There are three species of this large Omaliine in New Hampshire, which are easy to identify when the key is in hand. I believe there are other images in the miscellaneous Staphylinidae that I should attend to, some day.

 
Thanks Don.
If this is "large," I guess the others must be awfully small.

 
monster Omaliines
Jim: Well, they are as big as they get for the Omaliinae in NH. However, in the western states/provinces they get up to a cm long!!! You can pin them!

 
I forget myself!
I'm dealing with a coleopterist who uses the finest guage pins to mount things on the tiniest paper points. Anything over 2mm is therefore huge ;-)

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