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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Platynini » Agonum » Subgenus Olisares (Agonum Subgenus Olisares) » melanarium group (Agonum melanarium group) » Agonum melanarium
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Ground beetle - Agonum melanarium
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Ground beetle - Agonum melanarium
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
October 5, 2008
Size: 9mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 5 October, 2008 - 10:01pm
Last updated 13 October, 2008 - 4:47pm

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… tom murray, 13 October, 2008 - 4:47pm login or register to post comments

Agonum melanarium
based on my microscopic examination of this specimen. Thanks Tom.
… Peter W. Messer, 13 October, 2008 - 8:58am login or register to post comments

You're certainly keeping Peter busy
with all these carabids, Tom :-)
… Jim McClarin, 6 October, 2008 - 5:32am login or register to post comments

 
They all look so much alike
I'm not sure if I'm posting the same species a bunch of times, or if there's a few different ones. Luckily Peter can tell them apart.
… tom murray, 6 October, 2008 - 6:55am login or register to post comments

 
Well, you've posted this one a number of times.
I'm afraid I would have the same problem spotting differences.
… Jim McClarin, 13 October, 2008 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

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