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Red-headed ground beetle - Chlaenius emarginatus
Copyright © 2016 Joshua Stuart Rose

Red-headed ground beetle - Chlaenius emarginatus
Amethyst Brook Conservation Area, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 1, 2016
Found this beautiful beast under a plastic object near our back-porch light a few times this month. Hoping I identified it correctly; the long jaws and contrast between the red thorax and black elytrae seem diagnostic, unless I'm missing something.

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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 19 June, 2016 - 1:25pm

I think you're right
Looks like emarginatus. The "fuzz" on the elytra is a coating of golden hairs, which shows up more in this kind of lighting I suppose.
… Curt Harden, 20 June, 2016 - 9:30pm

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