I collected this pair within a couple minutes of each other and within a couple feet of a patch of gl*obular springt*ails I had uncovered by pulling back a rumpled piece of polyethylene film that had been lying on a bark-mulched area. Since I was there to collect these first-report-in-the-US sprin*gtails in alcohol, all I had for a container at the time was an open vial of ethyl alcohol, so into the drink they went.

Because these small imported carabids bear some morpholigical similarity to Noti*ophilus, the spring*tail specialists, and because of their activity in the immediate area of a cluster of glo*bular sp*ringtails, I wondered if they might also specialize in spri*ngtails, globul*ar or otherwise, as their food source. (Annoying asterisks serve to prevent annoying search results that would otherwise include this immage in searches for those words.)

I had never seen the metallic irridescence in the thorasic area in my photography of live specimens.