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Scirtidae - Sacodes pulchella
Copyright © 2015 Paul A Scharf

Scirtidae - Sacodes pulchella
Lake Gaston, Warren County, North Carolina, USA
May 11, 2015
Sacodes thoracica ? There's a photo under S. pulchella from Florida that also looks like this. Is it misidentified? Thanks, Paul

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Contributed by Paul A Scharf on 12 May, 2015 - 6:43am

Moved tentatively
This appears to be a dark variant of S. pulchella. Based on the source of the other image, I highly doubt it was misidentified.

Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 12 May, 2015 - 7:39am

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