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Cholevine carrion beetle - Sciodrepoides terminans - male
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

Cholevine carrion beetle - Sciodrepoides terminans - Male
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
October 23, 2007
Size: about 3.9 mm
Found this guy as the only one of his kind amid scores of rov*e beetles by scooping up double handfulls of a large patch of mushrooms that had rapidly decomposed with the help of fungus maggots and the unseasonably warm late October weather, plopping the black, slimy mess onto a plastic sheet. I say he because he has expanded tarsi on both front and middle legs, a male trait.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 24 October, 2007 - 9:34pm
Last updated 24 July, 2013 - 9:28am

Sciodrepoides terminans (LeConte)
Stewart B. Peck det.

Moved from Catops.
… v belov, 7 May, 2009 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow!
Thanks so much, Belov.
… Jim McClarin, 7 May, 2009 - 1:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Small Carrion Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 29 October, 2007 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Catops sp.
:-)
… Boris Büche, 29 October, 2007 - 6:19am login or register to post comments

 
As I suspected. Thanks much, Boris.
I seem to recall being told the expanded tarsi on both pro- and meso- legs are a trait that distinguishes Catops.
… Jim McClarin, 29 October, 2007 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

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