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Carabidae - Badister reflexus
Copyright © 2017 Alain Hogue

Carabidae - Badister reflexus
Athelstan, Quebec, Canada
June 10, 2017
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Contributed by Alain Hogue on 28 October, 2017 - 7:58pm
Last updated 16 May, 2025 - 11:18am

Moved very tentatively
Moved from Subgenus Baudia.
… v belov, 16 May, 2025 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Badister.
… v belov, 23 December, 2017 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

Good call, Peter
Maybe it could be narrowed down.. left mandible notched, elytra iridescent, plus general coloration..

Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Curt Harden, 31 October, 2017 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks to both of you.
Thanks to both of you.
… Alain Hogue, 1 November, 2017 - 7:31am login or register to post comments

Genus "Badister" came
to me in a deductive sherlockian instant that felt stronger than a hasty sheerluckian guess. Additional perpendicular close-up of the pronotum & head plus measured body length might help with species identification.
… Peter W. Messer, 29 October, 2017 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

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