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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Water Scavenger Beetles (Hydrophilidae) » Hydrophilinae » Berosini » Berosus
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Mystified - Berosus
Copyright © 2018 Ashley Bradford

Mystified - Berosus
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
July 29, 2018
I went through the entire Scarabaeoidea section here, and either I'm blind or just in the wrong section, but I saw no beetles with spots quite like this one, nor antennae. It looks like a chafer but for those antennae.

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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 11 August, 2018 - 1:32pm
Last updated 29 July, 2023 - 8:28am

Moved
Moved from Berosus fraternus.
… Matthew Pintar, 29 July, 2023 - 8:28am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Berosus.
… v belov, 11 August, 2020 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Nice for it to have a home now - and I see only a few there so far. I appreciate your ongoing labors! :)
… Ashley Bradford, 12 August, 2020 - 10:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Graham Montgomery, 11 August, 2018 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

Nice hydrophilid
Berosus?
… Graham Montgomery, 11 August, 2018 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Berosus indeed
… Blaine Mathison, 11 August, 2018 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
to you both, and John & Jane too! How can it be so far apart in the lineage but look so very much like a chafer?? Glad I decided to photograph this one instead of dismissing it as Yet Another Annoying Chafer at my lights! :)
… Ashley Bradford, 11 August, 2018 - 6:23pm login or register to post comments

Looks to be Hydrophilidae instead
Berosus?

Very attracted to lights at night
… john and jane balaban, 11 August, 2018 - 2:07pm login or register to post comments

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