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Crawling Water Beetle - Peltodytes muticus
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Crawling Water Beetle - Peltodytes muticus
Assabet River NWR, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 27, 2006
Size: 4mm

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Contributed by tom murray on 27 April, 2006 - 11:01pm
Last updated 1 May, 2006 - 8:02pm

Haliplidae: Peltodytes muticus
Keys pretty quickly in Downie and Arnett, and looks like ours.
… Donald S. Chandler, 1 May, 2006 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

Haliplidae: Peltodytes sp.
Actually Haliplidae, a crawling water beetle. If you photograph the bottom, then often these can be placed to species. Tony submitted one about a week ago, which if I just consulted the key could be placed to species easily. The color pattern at the apex of the metafemora is critical for species placement. Yours looks to be completely dark, which would make it the same species at Tony's
… Donald S. Chandler, 28 April, 2006 - 8:04am login or register to post comments

 
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It never flipped upside down in the water, so next time I'll take it out, and shoot it's underside. Thanks Don.
… tom murray, 28 April, 2006 - 8:15am login or register to post comments

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