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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Tooth-necked Fungus Beetles (Derodontoidea) » Jacobson's Beetles (Jacobsoniidae) » Derolathrus » Derolathrus cavernicolus
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Derolathrus cavernicolus Peck (Jacobsoniidae) - Derolathrus cavernicolus
Copyright © 2008 Michael C. Thomas

Derolathrus cavernicolus Peck (Jacobsoniidae) - Derolathrus cavernicolus
Citrus County, Florida, USA
In old bat guano in cave.
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Contributed by Michael C. Thomas on 22 January, 2008 - 4:13pm
Last updated 2 December, 2010 - 8:24am

Moved
Moved per Dr Thomas's info here from Derolathrus.
… v belov, 2 December, 2010 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

Two more down! Great pictures
Two more down! Great pictures!
… Dennis Haines, 22 January, 2008 - 4:41pm login or register to post comments

 
amazing!
I can't believe how many weird families you have in your collection. 4 more families left!
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 22 January, 2008 - 5:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks...
but the collection isn't actually mine, although I do feel rather possessive about it. The specimens are from the Florida State Collection of Arthropods in Gainesville.
… Michael C. Thomas, 23 January, 2008 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

 
makes me wonder...
...how guys like that one after a long journey all over Coleoptera could end up --of all places-- among elateroids... sssssso counter-intuitive :-]
… v belov, 11 September, 2008 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

 
Jacobsoniidae placement
And now several recent morphological and molecular studies put them into or as sister of Staphylinoidea! They'll be treated there in the forthcoming (in a couple years) Beetles of Canada and the US, successor to the now 20-year-old American Beetles.
… Margaret Thayer, 22 July, 2022 - 6:36pm login or register to post comments

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