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Crawling Water Beetle - Peltodytes sexmaculatus
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Crawling Water Beetle - Peltodytes sexmaculatus
Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware, USA
April 24, 2009
Size: ~3 mm
I believe this beetle is of the genus Peltodytes. I would note that this beetle is predacious. I observed this beetle repeatedly attacking a damselfly larva.

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Contributed by Catfish on 24 April, 2009 - 7:06pm
Last updated 6 July, 2013 - 9:11am

Moved
Moved from Peltodytes.
… Tim Loh, 10 May, 2009 - 1:25am

Nice
Very nice images!
… StevenBren, 24 April, 2009 - 7:30pm

 
Thank you, Steven. -- Cat
Thank you, Steven. -- Cat
… Catfish, 24 April, 2009 - 7:35pm

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