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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae) » Small Carrion Beetles (Cholevinae) » Cholevini » Catoptrichus » Catoptrichus frankenhauseri
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Leiodid - Catoptrichus frankenhauseri - Catoptrichus frankenhauseri
Copyright © 2007 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Leiodid - Catoptrichus frankenhauseri - Catoptrichus frankenhauseri
near High Point, King County, Washington, USA
April 7, 2003
Size: ~7mm
Collected by and determined by my coleopterist friend Alistair Ramsdale. Collected in a carrion pitfall trap (17 March-7 April 2003) beside a creek in a Thuja-Acer forest.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 17 October, 2007 - 10:46am
Last updated 27 January, 2008 - 4:48pm

Remarkable rack
on this beetle.
… Jim McClarin, 18 October, 2007 - 6:16pm login or register to post comments

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Become an editor, and you can make it yourself . . .
Thanks for this pretty weird addition!
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