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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Aleocharinae » Oxypodini
Photo#111474
rove beetle
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

rove beetle
Ayer, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 20, 2007
Size: 2.1mm
Found under bark.
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Contributed by tom murray on 21 May, 2007 - 7:44am
Last updated 5 January, 2011 - 3:10pm

Moved
Moved from Aleocharinae.
… v belov, 5 January, 2011 - 3:10pm login or register to post comments

it's possible that it might b
it's possible that it might be dexiogyia. it's an oxypodine found under bark, especially of conifers. if you have the specimen take a look at the labial palps, should be substylate.
… K. Taro Eldredge, 8 April, 2010 - 3:01am login or register to post comments

 
dexiogyia?
Unfortunately I don't keep specimens for myself, and I checked back and this is the only picture I have of this individual.
… tom murray, 8 April, 2010 - 8:41am login or register to post comments

certainly an interesting one.
reminds me of palearctic genus Euryusa (which does not occur with you). Were ants under the same pice of bark?
… Boris Büche, 22 May, 2007 - 3:12am login or register to post comments

 
I can't remember
if ants were there.
… tom murray, 22 May, 2007 - 4:54am login or register to post comments

Aleocharinae
of course.
… Donald S. Chandler, 21 May, 2007 - 8:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Another one:-(
There sure are plenty of these Aleocharins.
… tom murray, 21 May, 2007 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

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