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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Byrrhoidea » Water Penny Beetles (Psephenidae) » Psepheninae » Psephenus » Psephenus herricki
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Water penny exuviae - Psephenus herricki
Copyright © 2011 Charley Eiseman

Water penny exuviae - Psephenus herricki
Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
March 24, 2011
Found stuck to a tree right next to the Westfield River--I think it must have gotten lodged there during the spring flooding.
Looks the same as this one to my eye. Is there just one species in Massachusetts?
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 22 April, 2011 - 1:31pm
Last updated 22 April, 2011 - 2:42pm

Moved
Moved from Water Penny Beetles.
… Brady Richards, 22 April, 2011 - 2:42pm login or register to post comments

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Are you sure it was just the exuvium and not a deceased individual that got washed up there?
… Jeff Gruber, 22 April, 2011 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

 
I poked at it when I was done photographing...
and it was just an empty carapace (if that's the proper term) with nothing under it.
… Charley Eiseman, 22 April, 2011 - 1:41pm login or register to post comments

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