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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Carabini » Caterpillar Hunter Beetles (Calosoma) » Subgenus Chrysostigma (Calosoma Subgenus Chrysostigma) » Calosoma affine
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Calosoma affine Chaudoir - Calosoma affine - female
Copyright © 2009 Mike Quinn

Calosoma affine Chaudoir - Calosoma affine - Female
Motel 6 parking lot, Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
November 7, 2009
Det. E. G. Riley, 2009

spmn in the TAMUIC

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Calosoma affine Chaudoir - Calosoma affine - female Calosoma affine Chaudoir - Calosoma affine - female
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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 15 November, 2009 - 1:41am
Last updated 11 February, 2022 - 12:33am

opinion on this one?
Having looked over the images here of Calosoma from Texas (high quality ones largely by you, of course), I think I have identified a beetle I saw back in 2006 as affine:


Do you think this is a reasonable conclusion?
… Cotinis, 23 March, 2021 - 8:32pm login or register to post comments

 
and...
What I think is a male affine from same site and date. Would be grateful for your opinion:
… Cotinis, 23 March, 2021 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Mike Quinn, 15 November, 2009 - 1:43am login or register to post comments

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