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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Platynini » Platynus » subgenus Platynus (Platynus subgenus Platynus) » Platynus decentis
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Ground Beetle - Platynus decentis
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Ground Beetle - Platynus decentis
Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 4, 2008
Size: 13mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 7 August, 2008 - 6:30pm
Last updated 24 November, 2024 - 2:42am

Moved
Moved from Platynus.
… Curt Harden, 24 November, 2024 - 2:42am login or register to post comments

There must've been a mix-up
this is clearly a Platynus
Moved from Agonum ferreum.
… Curt Harden, 1 July, 2020 - 1:21pm login or register to post comments

 
My single example of Agonum ferreum with same Murray data
is confirmed today as that species. There must have been a mix-up in photo associations back in 2008. I see that the photo shows a distinct constriction behind vertex suggestive of Platynus. My specimen does not have that constriction. The photo does not show the characteristically punctate elytral striae of Agonum ferreum. However, the dark color of basal antennomeres and femora in the photo does match mine. The imaged eyes appear too hemispherical (bug-eyed) to be Agonum ferreum. The clincher that we have a mismatch in photos is: my specimen is 7 mm, Tom's post says 13 mm. Sorry I didn't catch the mismatch in 2008. Thanks Curt.

Addendum: Photo looks like "Platynus megalops" of the southwest. Tom, I can't recall if you traveled there in 2008?
… Peter W. Messer, 1 July, 2020 - 7:10pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… tom murray, 14 September, 2008 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

Agonum ferreum
based on my microscopic examination of this specimen. Thanks Tom.
… Peter W. Messer, 14 September, 2008 - 10:03am login or register to post comments

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