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Water Scavenger Beetle - Hydrochara soror
Copyright © 2005 Cotinis

Water Scavenger Beetle - Hydrochara soror
Hwy 55 and Sedwick, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
June 30, 2005
Size: 16 mm
Found at a light and captured. Length measured by photographing adjacent to a scale. Posed in a dish of water. Based on size and the length of the spine on the underside, this would appear to be a Hydrochara. See the photo below for discussion:


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Contributed by Cotinis on 5 July, 2005 - 2:25pm
Last updated 20 December, 2007 - 8:11am

Moved
Moved from Hydrochara.
… Cotinis, 20 December, 2007 - 8:11am

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