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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Scaritinae » Dyschiriini » Akephorus » Akephorus marinus
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Tiny little beach beetles - Akephorus marinus
Copyright © 2016 john and jane balaban

Tiny little beach beetles - Akephorus marinus
Beachside State Park beach, north of Yachats, Lincoln County, Oregon, USA
May 24, 2016
Size: ~6mm
There were these small ants running around on the beach and when they stopped, they just disappeared! When we finally got to see them we realized they were beetles, probably carabids? Here are three of the color forms.

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Tiny little beach beetles - Akephorus marinus Tiny little beach beetles - Akephorus marinus
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 21 June, 2016 - 9:47pm

As we read about this genus,
it seems that marinus may be restricted to southern California in the US. And this specimen seems to have the puffy pronotum that we see on obesus, so maybe it is just another color option for obesus. It is interesting that a number of references state that the beetles are strictly nocturnal. We were out in the daytime, midafternoon, and there were plenty of beetles scurrying around.
… john and jane balaban, 22 June, 2016 - 3:58pm login or register to post comments

Interesting, will have to have Cristian
check out that genus. There were plenty of them running around on the beach.
… john and jane balaban, 21 June, 2016 - 10:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 21 June, 2016 - 10:13pm login or register to post comments

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