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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Sphodrini » Laemostenus » Laemostenus (Laemostenus) complanatus (Laemostenus complanatus)
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Ground beetle? - Laemostenus complanatus
Copyright © 2020 trickykid1

Ground beetle? - Laemostenus complanatus
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
May 17, 2020
Size: 3 cm?
On iNaturalist, and in my Insects of the LA Basin book, I really thought this looked like Laemostenus complanatus, but my book says it is only 10 mm. This was a big beetle. I would put it at more like 3cm. Found several of them while sweeping up fallen loquats leaves and fruit from a cement patio. Warm lately - 80s.

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Contributed by trickykid1 on 27 May, 2020 - 10:45am
Last updated 23 April, 2024 - 1:28pm

Moved
Moved from Frass.
… Connor E.J. Graham, 23 April, 2024 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

Laemostenus complanatus a good guess; sure no Pterostichus
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Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 8 July, 2020 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

Possible genus guess
Not completely certain but you might want to look at the genus Pterostichus
… Tyler John Morris, 27 May, 2020 - 4:41pm login or register to post comments

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