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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Aphodiine Dung Beetles (Aphodiinae) » Aphodiini » Phaeaphodius » Phaeaphodius rectus
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Shiny Beetle with Mite Hitchhiker - Phaeaphodius rectus
Copyright © 2019 Sara Simpkins

Shiny Beetle with Mite Hitchhiker - Phaeaphodius rectus
Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park, Last Mountain Lake Area, Saskatchewan, Canada
August 24, 2019
Previously posted on iNaturalist.

We were swimming at the South swimming area on Rowan Ravine Provincial Park beach and saw the beetle struggling about 15-20 meters from shore, water was about 1meter deep. I captured it and walked out of the water to my bag and photographed it as it dried off.
I initially did not notice that it had a small mite hitchhiking on it.

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Contributed by Sara Simpkins on 16 September, 2019 - 11:19am
Last updated 17 September, 2019 - 6:32am

Moved
Moved from Aphodius.
… Blaine Mathison, 17 September, 2019 - 6:32am login or register to post comments

Moved
Thinking Phaeaphodius rectus but also Melinopterus prodromus; the former would be a range expansion.

Moved from Scarab Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 16 September, 2019 - 7:22pm login or register to post comments

 
rectus, agreed
… v belov, 16 September, 2019 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

Not a mite...
The hitchhiker is definitely not a mite. Might be a beetle larva of some kind...
… Ken Allison, 16 September, 2019 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

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