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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini
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Tiny black-brown rove beetle with squarish head, setose abdomen, and red-brown extremities & elytral suture.
Copyright © 2021 Emile

Tiny black-brown rove beetle with squarish head, setose abdomen, and red-brown extremities & elytral suture.
Ontario, San Bernardino County, California, USA
February 11, 2021
Size: ~ 3 mm
Found in the dry part of a concrete creek channel after disturbing a tuft of grass.
It's carrying dozens of approximately 100 micrometer long (Histiostoma ?) mites.

The rove beetle keyed in the direction of Quediina (Staphilinini), but I couldn't find a match.
It resembles Erichsonius (Erichsoniina, also in Staphylinini), but there too I could not find a match.
Maybe the keys were misleading and it belongs in Aleocharinae ?
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Contributed by Emile on 21 February, 2021 - 8:23am
Last updated 6 June, 2021 - 3:31pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
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Thanks for the tribal confirmation, =V= !
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