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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Philonthina » Philonthus » Philonthus rufulus
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Rove Beetle - Philonthus rufulus - female
Copyright © 2013 tom murray

Rove Beetle - Philonthus rufulus - Female
Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 5, 2013
Size: 6mm
Found by splashing water on the sand at the edge of a stream.
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Contributed by tom murray on 5 June, 2013 - 11:22pm
Last updated 19 August, 2017 - 11:41pm

Philonthus rufulus Horn, female
Moved from Philonthus. Tentatively ID'd from specimen, now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom.

Smetana's key starts heavily using male genitalic characters at couplet 76, so it is more difficult with a female. But I feel fairly confident this is a darker color form of P. rufulus Horn.
… Brad Barnd, 31 May, 2015 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Rove Beetles.
… v belov, 6 June, 2013 - 7:00am login or register to post comments

Philonthus, needs to be scope
Philonthus, needs to be scoped for species,

Cheers,
Adam
… Adam Brunke, 6 June, 2013 - 2:34am login or register to post comments

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