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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Galeritini » False Bombardier Beetles (Galerita) » subgenus Progaleritina (Galerita subgenus Progaleritina) » Galerita atripes
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Arizona Beetle for ID - Galerita atripes
Copyright © 2021 Jim Eckert

Arizona Beetle for ID - Galerita atripes
2 miles SW of Onion Saddle, Chiricahua Mts., Cochise County, Arizona, USA
August 19, 2021
Size: 18 mm
On a sheet with a Bioquip UV black light.

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Contributed by Jim Eckert on 4 September, 2021 - 3:03pm
Last updated 4 April, 2024 - 1:14pm

Moved very tentatively
Moved from subgenus Progaleritina.
… v belov, 4 April, 2024 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

nice bug, bad angles
with the carabids, you deviate 5° from straight dorsal, you loose 50% of identifiability; 10° tilt may well render the pic unID'able

Moved from ID Request.
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