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Orange and glossy blue beetle - Lebia grandis
Copyright © 2016 Timothy Reichard

Orange and glossy blue beetle - Lebia grandis
Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
June 30, 2016
Contributed by Timothy Reichard on 15 August, 2016 - 8:41pm
Last updated 17 August, 2016 - 7:29pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Curt Harden, 17 August, 2016 - 7:29pm

Best guess
Bombardier Beetle - Brachinus sp.
For example, see: http://bugguide.net/node/view/226713
… Bill Wilwers, 15 August, 2016 - 9:30pm

 
Lebia sp.
… Blaine Mathison, 16 August, 2016 - 4:44am

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