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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Stag Beetles (Lucanidae) » Lucaninae » Platycerini » Platycerus » Platycerus oregonensis
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Beetle - Platycerus oregonensis
Copyright © 2015 Stephen Hart

Beetle - Platycerus oregonensis
Mouth of the Elwha River, Clallam County, Washington, USA
April 30, 2015
Sorry these are all a bit soft focus.

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Contributed by Stephen Hart on 1 May, 2015 - 12:17pm
Last updated 1 May, 2015 - 2:36pm

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… Alan Jeon, 1 May, 2015 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Platycerus oregonensis.
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… Bruce Tilden, 1 May, 2015 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Platycerus oregonensis
I agree, based on other bugguide photos. If so, a first on bugguide for Clallam County.

It was wandering around on cobble and sand newly exposed by the changing river course, near the mouth of the river.
… Stephen Hart, 1 May, 2015 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

 
If you want to find more...
...look under the bark of large rotten fallen hardwood trees such as oak and cottonwood.
… Bruce Tilden, 1 May, 2015 - 1:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Cottonwood
No oak around here, but we have a large cottonwood in our yard, and there are probably some fallen branches (6-8" diameter branches fall off occasionally) rotting away. Interesting that the beetles prefer certain tree species.
… Stephen Hart, 1 May, 2015 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

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