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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Clown Beetles (Histeridae) » Histerinae » Hololeptini » Hololepta » subgenus Hololepta (Hololepta subgenus Hololepta) » Hololepta aequalis
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Thin Beetle - Hololepta aequalis
Copyright © 2014 Steve McKechnie

Thin Beetle - Hololepta aequalis
White Fox, Torch River, Saskatchewan, Canada
July 30, 2014
Size: length 8.4 mm X 5 mm wide
Found hanging in a spider web eight feet from ground, beetle was motionless before adding water.

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Contributed by Steve McKechnie on 30 July, 2014 - 11:49pm
Last updated 31 October, 2014 - 2:00am

Moved
Moved from Clown Beetles.
… Steve McKechnie, 31 October, 2014 - 2:00am login or register to post comments

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"One species occurs in Canada"
0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" class="bb_url">Hololepta aequalis

Key - Elytron with dorsal stria 1 abbreviated, restricted to basal third. (Fig.196)...H. aequalis Say P.255
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Genus HOLOLEPTA SK not on the list. BC AB - MB ON PQ
http://www.canacoll.org/Coleo/Checklist/PDF%20files/HISTERIDAE.pdf
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