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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Licinini » Badister » Subgenus Baudia (Badister Subgenus Baudia) » micans group (Badister micans group) » Badister micans
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Ground Beetle - Badister micans
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Ground Beetle - Badister micans
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 8, 2008
Size: 6mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 9 May, 2008 - 2:02pm
Last updated 16 May, 2008 - 9:27am

Peter
Thanks for another species id!
… tom murray, 16 May, 2008 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… tom murray, 9 May, 2008 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

Licinini - Badister
based on dorsally notched left mandible; comes down to just a few species.
… Peter W. Messer, 9 May, 2008 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Badister ocularis
based on my examination of this specimen. Combination of larger size (> 5.6 mm), somewhat wider pronotum, right mandible tip oblique (not truncated) separates it from similar B. grandiceps and B. reflexus. Thanks Tom.
… Peter W. Messer, 15 May, 2008 - 10:36pm login or register to post comments

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