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Red-legged Ham Beetle - Necrobia rufipes

Red-legged Ham Beetle - Necrobia rufipes
Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 19, 2012
Size: 5.3mm
Found under a rotting head of a blue-finned tuna that was discarded on the sand at the edge of a salt marsh.

Necrobia rufipes (DeGeer)
Specimen now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom.

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