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Photo#1030362
Beetle needs ID'd - Scaphinotus

Beetle needs ID'd - Scaphinotus
Multnomah County, Oregon, USA
December 7, 2014
Size: 2cm
In old growth forest location, found deep within rotted interior of downed tree. The mandibles are sickle-like, overlapping each side to look like their connected. It would open them up upon being aggressively disturbed, and it crawls around pretty fast.

Moved
Moved from Cychrini.

Cychrini larva
It's a larva of the Carabidae family, in the tribe Cychrini.
Might not be possible to get down to species from the photo..
Here's a similar one:

this tribe is richly represented in the PNW
Moved from ID Request.

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