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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Woodland Ground Beetles (Pterostichini) » Poecilus » chalcites group (Poecilus chalcites group) » Poecilus chalcites
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Carabid - Poecilus chalcites
Copyright © 2015 Adam Kranz

Carabid - Poecilus chalcites
Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, USA
May 15, 2013
Size: 12 mm
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Contributed by Adam Kranz on 19 February, 2015 - 8:58am
Last updated 11 February, 2019 - 5:48pm

Moved
Moved from Poecilus.
… Jonathan W. Quist, 11 February, 2019 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… John S. Ascher, 23 March, 2015 - 7:27am login or register to post comments

Nice image...
Particularly like the added line with mm measurement. How exactly are you doing that if I might ask?
… Gary Griswold, 25 February, 2015 - 12:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Scale Bar
I use a computer-integrated microscope camera (it's a Zeiss microscope and imaging program) in the entomology lab on campus. If you tell it what zoom level the lens is set it, it will calculate the appropriate scale bar and you can manipulate it to suit the photo.
… Adam Kranz, 25 February, 2015 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

looks like
Poecilus chalcites
… Curt Harden, 19 February, 2015 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

 
Poecilus was my thought too
… Blaine Mathison, 19 February, 2015 - 9:54am login or register to post comments

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