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Rio Grande rove beetle - Neobisnius

Rio Grande rove beetle - Neobisnius
Las Cruces, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
December 29, 2005
Size: 4 mm
Found under flattened beer carton in damp hollow on sand bar on bed of Rio Grande, along with some smaller roves that curled up and died on way back to New Hampshire, and some small darkly-marked ground beetles.

Moved
Moved from Neobisinus. (Correct spelling for this genus is Neobisnius.)

 
No need to make new node, delete old due to misspelling
You can change the spelling of a name associated with any node if you are an editor--no need to make a new node, move the images, and then delete the original node. Just go in and edit the appropriate guide page. For genus and species names, the spelling change will automatically propagate to all images placed under that node, and for genus pages, the change to a genus spelling will propagate down to all the species under that genus. (It is tres slick!)

One exception to the propagation is that if the Latin binomial is used for the common name of a species (the default), you have to go in and correct that field in the species guide page.

I hope this all makes sense, and I am interpreting the edits done here correctly.

 
oops
I was looking for a way to do what you're describing, but missed it. (Didn't realize the genus name was editable on the info page.) Thanks Patrick for letting me know how to change the name -- I'll do it this way next time.

 
Thanks for catching that, Joyce.
I'm deeply indebted to you :-)

mimic species
Dear nature lovers,

I may call to your attention that this species is disguising as a poisonous Paederus - occuring in the same habitat type . . .

 
Fascinating!
Your comment caused me to read the Info page for Paederus, prepared by Robin McLeod, which mentions the poison, its effects and its history of use in Chinese medicine.

Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Neobisnius sp.
Possibly Neobisnius occidentalis.

 
Thank you, Don
for sorting out the rove beetles.

 
Oopsie - subfamily Staphylininae
Not Paederinae

 
So noted
Thanks, Don. I'm fixing it.

 
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My turn to say oopsie!
Thank you John and Jane. For my next trick I'll really fix it! 4:46 in the morning was probably too early. I should have been sleeping.

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