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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Marsh Beetles (Scirtidae) » Contacyphon-group genera
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Scirtoidea - Scirtidae
Copyright © 2022 Ellen Yerger

Scirtoidea - Scirtidae
Bald Eagle State Forest, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 3, 2019
Size: 3.7mm
Collected from gravity funnel traps under hemlock trees

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Contributed by Ellen Yerger on 23 March, 2022 - 2:17pm
Last updated 12 June, 2023 - 1:48pm

sorry, shoul've moved here
Moved from Contacyphon.
… v belov, 12 June, 2023 - 8:52am login or register to post comments

pls note spelling of the family name
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 10 June, 2023 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Who ID'd this as Contacyphon???
Basically impossible to do without dissection (unless it's one of the oddball species). Because it appears to have costae, it might be a Herthania.
… J. H. Epler, 12 June, 2023 - 8:30am login or register to post comments

NOT a dytiscid
looks more like a scirtid but without specimen in hand ...
… J. H. Epler, 24 March, 2022 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

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