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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Staphylinina » Platydracus » Platydracus exulans
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Rove Beetle? - Platydracus exulans
Copyright © 2007 Andrew Meeds

Rove Beetle? - Platydracus exulans
Manhattan, Kansas, USA
March 21, 2007
Size: 3/4 inch
Found on the Konza prairie last Spring Break... going through my photo arsenal to add/ID some stuff I'm not sure on... Thanks!
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Contributed by Andrew Meeds on 2 September, 2007 - 6:41pm
Last updated 12 August, 2015 - 11:53am

awesome -- thanks again, colleagues! just a measly 8 years...
Andrew, do you happen to have a sighting date for it?

Moved from Platydracus.
… v belov, 12 August, 2015 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I got the date to within a couple of days at least. Will see if the originals are on my old computer.
… Andrew Meeds, 12 August, 2015 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

 
cool
… v belov, 12 August, 2015 - 11:55am login or register to post comments

Platydracus exulans.
Platydracus exulans.
… Alfred F. Newton, 12 August, 2015 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

Platydracus sp.
very probably.
… Boris Büche, 3 September, 2007 - 5:39am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for the ID.
… Andrew Meeds, 3 September, 2007 - 1:12pm login or register to post comments

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