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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Woodland Ground Beetles (Pterostichini) » Pterostichus » Subgenus Bothriopterus (Pterostichus Subgenus Bothriopterus)
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carabid egg layers? - Pterostichus
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

carabid egg layers? - Pterostichus
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
April 1, 2007
Size: est. 1/2 mm
Here are a few of the adult carabids I found congregated beneath the rip-rap along with the eggs. If any of the eggs hatch, I should be able to determine if they were layed by *some* type of carabid.

EDIT eight years later: I should have said sooner that the eggs did hatch and they turned out to be Opiliones, a daddy longlegs. See here.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 5 April, 2007 - 11:09am
Last updated 5 April, 2015 - 6:30am

Moved
Moved from Pterostichus.
… v belov, 3 April, 2015 - 12:57am login or register to post comments

subgenus Bothriopterus
I can't really see the discal punctures well enough to tell more...
… Curt Harden, 2 April, 2015 - 6:23am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Woodland Ground Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 23 October, 2008 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
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