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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Lebiini » Calleidina » Calleida » subgenus Calleida (Calleida subgenus Calleida) » Calleida punctata
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Carabidae sp. - Calleida punctata
Copyright © 2008 Nicolas Gompel & Jeff Gruber

Carabidae sp. - Calleida punctata
Waupun, Marsh Heaven Nature Center, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
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Contributed by Nicolas Gompel on 12 February, 2008 - 4:14pm

Beauty!
Great image, as usual:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 12 February, 2008 - 4:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the comment and ID
That was super fast! I had barely uploaded the image, and it was gone from the ID request zone!
… Nicolas Gompel, 12 February, 2008 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Another beauty!
... but let's not forget those less fortunate ground beetles that do not have such distinctive shape and color patterns as this one and some other species you recently posted. A uniformly black Pterostichus or a confusingly bronzy Amara should also be entitled to reap the benefits of your excellent automontage technique.
… Peter W. Messer, 12 February, 2008 - 11:42pm login or register to post comments

 
I could not agree more
but this will come with time. Not for Carabidae, though, as I only have 2 or 3 Nearctic species mounted, but for LBBs (little brown beetles) which are generally ignored by most entomologists.
… Nicolas Gompel, 13 February, 2008 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Ha, ha!
I IDed it for you eight months ago on flickr.com :-)
… Jim McClarin, 12 February, 2008 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

 
All my apologies, Jim
You know, when I uploaded this picture on BugGuide, I knew someone had given me the name of this critter but was unable to find out who and where! Now, I know, sorry for the redundancy.
… Nicolas Gompel, 13 February, 2008 - 2:38pm login or register to post comments

 
Rats!
Now I suppose I must apologize next time I do something similar. Don Chandler is always re-identifying stuff for me.
… Jim McClarin, 13 February, 2008 - 5:22pm login or register to post comments

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