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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Staphylinina » Platydracus » Red-spotted Rove Beetle (Platydracus fossator)
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Red-spotted Rove Beetle - Platydracus fossator
Copyright © 2009 John Pearson

Red-spotted Rove Beetle - Platydracus fossator
Lake Rathbun, Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa, USA
August 28, 2009
Size: ~2 cm
Lone individual crawled up onto my kayak as I was paddling along shore of reservoir.
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Contributed by John Pearson on 29 August, 2009 - 5:41pm
Last updated 30 August, 2009 - 10:40am

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… John Pearson, 30 August, 2009 - 10:30am login or register to post comments

Red-spotted Rove Beetle (Platydracus fossator)
I think
… margarethe brummermann, 29 August, 2009 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

 
P. fossator is correct, it's
P. fossator is correct, it's about the right time to see them in the northeast.

Adam
… Adam Brunke, 30 August, 2009 - 10:03am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks to all
...of you for helping with this ID. In reading the habitat descriptions for the other specimens in the BG gallery and in the general description for the Rove Beetle family, I see that this is a terrestrial species, so my discovery on it on the water likely means that it had been carried "out to sea" accidentally. Our kayaks had been pulled up on land a few minutes before this photo was taken, so perhaps it crawled onto a boat on the shore then and was discovered later when we were underway again.
… John Pearson, 30 August, 2009 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

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