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False clown beetle - Sphaerites politus
Copyright © 2007 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

False clown beetle - Sphaerites politus
near High Point, King County, Washington, USA
June 16, 2003
Size: 4.5mm
Collected by and determined by my coleopterist friend Alistair Ramsdale. Collected in a carrion pitfall trap (29 May - 16 June 2003) beside a creek in a Thuja-Acer forest.

All pics taken with automontage system. Actual montaging done with CombineZM.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 1 November, 2007 - 6:45pm

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