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Blue-margined Ground Beetle - Pasimachus depressus - male
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Blue-margined Ground Beetle - Pasimachus depressus - Male
Turkey Farm Road, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
October 28, 2005
Size: 34 mm
Found in leaf litter in a deciduous forest habitat. Captured and posed--having lost an antenna in the process. This appears to be Pasimachus depressus, according to the key in Ciegler (1).

This is probably a male. Ciegler, p. 37 (1) says that elytron of male is shiny, of female, dull. Also, base of mandible of male has a wide oblique depression dorsally.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 21 November, 2005 - 11:12am
Last updated 21 November, 2005 - 9:07pm

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