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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Oodini » Oodes
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Aquatic beetle - Oodes
Copyright © 2016 Dorothy E. Pugh

Aquatic beetle - Oodes
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
April 12, 2016
It swam relatively slowly on the surface of a large puddle created by rain on the edge of a marsh.
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Contributed by Dorothy E. Pugh on 12 April, 2016 - 7:28pm
Last updated 5 May, 2016 - 8:39am

Moved, Oodes sp.
Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 5 May, 2016 - 8:39am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 4 May, 2016 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

Carabus swimming video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I51ik27TWNA

Around the 2 minute mark in this video, a Carabus is shown "swimming" into some shallow water to catch a tadpole. It seemed pretty comfortable and relatively efficient at it.

The filming is exquisite in this one!
… Sean Perez, 16 April, 2016 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

Carabidae, Oodes?
wasn't swimming; it's presence in the water was incidental at best
… Blaine Mathison, 12 April, 2016 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Oodes
I've read that they can swim pretty well!
… Curt Harden, 12 April, 2016 - 10:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Oo(des)oooo....good to know
:)
… Blaine Mathison, 13 April, 2016 - 4:22am login or register to post comments

 
limicolous
Many carabids are limicolous - they can be found on muddy shorelines, etc., but none (that I know of, in North America) are "aquatic".
… J. H. Epler, 13 April, 2016 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

 
'swimmers'
Larochelle's book on carabid natural history(1) mentions a few instances of species that are capable of swimming well, usually as a defense mechanism (Oodes, Platynus, some Chlaenius.)
I've seen Nebria try to escape capture by swimming out on the surface of a stream for a couple feet, then circling back to shore downstream.
… Curt Harden, 13 April, 2016 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

 
are we all in agreement this is at least Oodes?
:)
… Blaine Mathison, 14 April, 2016 - 4:19am login or register to post comments

 
I think it's safe to at oodes
Or one of those smaller related genera
… Curt Harden, 3 May, 2016 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

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