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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Spiny-legged Rove Beetles (Oxytelinae) » Oxytelini » Platystethus
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Rove beetle? - Platystethus
Copyright © 2016 mpoisson

Rove beetle? - Platystethus
Boiling Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Size: 5mm
The specimen has become a little disjointed, as I retrieved it from the stomach contents of a toad. Would love the genus and species, I think it's a rove beetle (Family Staphylinidae)
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Contributed by mpoisson on 15 May, 2016 - 11:09am
Last updated 27 May, 2016 - 6:14pm

Moved
Moved from Rove Beetles.
… Brad Barnd, 27 May, 2016 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

This is a species of Platyste
This is a species of Platystethus,

Cheers,
Adam
… Adam Brunke, 26 May, 2016 - 10:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention
Moved from ID Request.
… Brad Barnd, 15 May, 2016 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Sunius sp.
Could this be a Sunius sp? Maybe Sunius confluentus?
… mpoisson, 15 May, 2016 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

 
nope
your beetle is probably in the Aleocharinae (very diverse, tough to ID)
… Brad Barnd, 15 May, 2016 - 3:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Good to know!
… mpoisson, 15 May, 2016 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

 
also
Oxytelinae is perhaps a better possibility
… Brad Barnd, 15 May, 2016 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

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