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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Water Scavenger Beetles (Hydrophilidae) » Sphaeridiinae » Megasternini » Cercyon » Subgenus Paracercyon (Cercyon Subgenus Paracercyon) » Cercyon laminatus
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Water Scavenger Beetle - Cercyon laminatus
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

Water Scavenger Beetle - Cercyon laminatus
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 27, 2012
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Contributed by tom murray on 29 August, 2012 - 9:48pm
Last updated 30 August, 2012 - 10:08am

Moved tentatively
Moved from Cercyon.
… v belov, 30 August, 2012 - 10:08am login or register to post comments

laminatus comes to mind...
compare, e.g., here or here

Moved from Water Scavenger Beetles.
… v belov, 30 August, 2012 - 1:37am login or register to post comments

 
C. laminatus
That looks like the same species. But this is one I didn't collect because I thought it was something else that's common. I'll keep an eye out for another one at my lights.
… tom murray, 30 August, 2012 - 8:15am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aphodiine Dung Beetles.
Oops! I was paying more attention to the color pattern than the shape and antennae.
… tom murray, 29 August, 2012 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

not a dung beetle of the scarab sort
Cercyon?
… Brad Barnd, 29 August, 2012 - 10:04pm login or register to post comments

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