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Small fast beetle - Scaphisoma
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Small fast beetle - Scaphisoma
Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 11, 2006
Size: 3mm
Found a couple of these inside a rotten log.

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Contributed by tom murray on 12 May, 2006 - 9:02am
Last updated 12 May, 2006 - 1:57pm

Staphylinidae: Scaphidiinae: Scaphisoma sp.
I think Scaphisoma, but the critical features of the relative lengths of the basal antennomeres can't be seen - it could be Baeocera.
… Donald S. Chandler, 12 May, 2006 - 12:12pm

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