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Species Necrophilus hydrophiloides - Flat Brown Scavenger Beetle

Carrion Beetle - Necrophilus hydrophiloides

Primitive Carrion Beetle - Necrophilus hydrophiloides

Tenebrionid? - Necrophilus hydrophiloides

cow carcass larva - Necrophilus hydrophiloides

Unknown beetle - Necrophilus hydrophiloides

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

Family Agyrtidae (Primitive Carrion Beetles)

Genus Necrophilus

Species hydrophiloides (Flat Brown Scavenger Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Necrophilus hydrophiloides Guérin-Méneville 1835

Size

5-13 mm(1)

Identification

winged species(2)

Range

West Coast (AK-CA)(2)

Habitat

wet coastal forests(1)

Season

Nov-May in CA(1)

Life Cycle

Larva

Works Cited

1.	California Beetle Project

2.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 24 August, 2005 - 11:25am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 21 October, 2012 - 4:53pm

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