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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Crab-like Rove Beetles (Tachyporinae) » Tachyporini » Tachyporus » Tachyporus elegans
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rove beetle - Tachyporus elegans
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

rove beetle - Tachyporus elegans
Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
March 14, 2008
Size: 4mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 14 March, 2008 - 6:07pm
Last updated 25 April, 2008 - 9:37pm

Adam
Thanks for the identification and explanation of the diagnosis.
… tom murray, 25 April, 2008 - 9:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tachyporinae.
… tom murray, 15 March, 2008 - 10:30am login or register to post comments

Tachyporus
coluoration will allow for species ID, I guess . . .
… Boris Büche, 15 March, 2008 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

 
Thankfully an easy one...
This is Tachyporus elegans Horn. Diagnostic coloration: bi-colored abdomen, pronotum without central dark area, and elytra dark near scutellum only. This is one of the few Tachyporus spp. that is easily picked out by color alone. At a quick glance, this is the only one on bugguide thus far that can be ID'd this way.

Cheers,
Adam
… Adam Brunke, 23 April, 2008 - 9:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Rove Beetles.
… tom murray, 14 March, 2008 - 9:41pm login or register to post comments

Tachyporinae sp.
A third one. Save this one for me please.
… Donald S. Chandler, 14 March, 2008 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

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