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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae) » Catopocerinae » Glacicavicola » Idaho Ice Cave Beetle (Glacicavicola bathyscioides)
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Leiodid - Glacicavicola bathyscioides
Copyright © 2008 Jeff Gruber & Al Allen & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Leiodid - Glacicavicola bathyscioides
Crystal Ice Caves, Power County, Idaho, USA
May 28, 1975
Size: 6mm
Collected by coleopterist Al Allen from an ice stalagmite.

Specimen kindly loaned to me by Al Allen.

All pics taken with automontage system. Actual montaging done with CombineZM.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 5 November, 2008 - 7:00pm

Stunning!
thanks for sharing with us!
… Tim Moyer, 6 November, 2008 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

You're kidding....
I thought these were carabids. When did they make the jump to leiodids? Aren't they egg predators (of cave crickets)?
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 November, 2008 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thoughts
Shame on you, Eric! See this: Westcott, Richard L. 1968. A new subfamily of blind beetle from Idaho ice caves with notes on its bionomics and evolution (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 141:1-14. Ah, but in all fairness I must admit I too thought they were carabids, Rhadine or its ilk, which impression was fortified when I showed the first specimens to my major professor!
… Richard L. Westcott, 21 September, 2013 - 1:53pm login or register to post comments

 
convergence
Convergence is really cool. Totally looks like mini Rhadines!
… Kojun Kanda, 6 November, 2008 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments

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