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 Ontholestes cingulatus? - Ontholestes cingulatus

Ontholestes cingulatus? - Ontholestes cingulatus
Metcalf Bottoms Trail, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
August 27, 2016
Found on a dead tree stump with lots of rotting mushy fungi

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Moved, let's keep it :)
Moved from Beetles.

 
sounds good to me
:-)
Truth be told I wish my parents bought me a refurbished Canon Sl1 instead of a T6 due to terrible frame rate for macros.

yup
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Should I frass?
Wondering if this one should be frassed or not. The image quality is pretty bad, but there are only five pictures of this guy on here for TN on two different occasions. With that being said, both are in Sevier County, both are in the G.S.M.N.P., and one was photographed in August.
I am wondering if the rarity of the insect should veto a frass. I keep records of all of this stuff anyway, so it's not like I will have to repost this image again to ask what it is. Anyway, just wonderin' so do what you would like with it :-P

 
I keep waffling on whether to frass these or not
I typically frass less-than-idea images, and frankly most BG data points are not relevant unless they become voucher-ID'd specimens in a reference collection

The number of images in BugGuide by NO means reflect an organism's rarity/abundance in nature or even collections. Images on BG are random records of random insects happen to be captured by someone who happens to be at a given place/time. Way too much emphasis if put on BG data points.

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