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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 » Quediina » Quedius » subgenus Megaquedius (Quedius subgenus Megaquedius) » Quedius (Megaquedius) explanatus (Quedius explanatus)
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Big Staphylinid - Quedius explanatus
Copyright © 2010 margarethe brummermann

Big Staphylinid - Quedius explanatus
Mnt Lemmon, Catalinas, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
June 12, 2010
Size: 17 mm

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 14 June, 2010 - 1:27am
Last updated 30 September, 2019 - 5:38am

Moved
Moved from Quedius (Megaquedius) explanatus.
… Boris Büche, 30 September, 2019 - 5:38am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… margarethe brummermann, 14 June, 2010 - 10:26am login or register to post comments

Quedius (Megaquedius) explanatus
I know this one because I too collected it high in the Catalina Mnts!!!
… Blaine Mathison, 14 June, 2010 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

 
yesss
… v belov, 14 June, 2010 - 8:38am login or register to post comments

 
Great! Thanks everyone!
… margarethe brummermann, 14 June, 2010 - 10:25am login or register to post comments

 
Palisades
now I remember, mine were under rocks at the Palisades visitor center on Mt Lemmon!
… Blaine Mathison, 14 June, 2010 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

 
These were high up
meadow trail on top of the mountain - burned area in picture with carab.
… margarethe brummermann, 14 June, 2010 - 1:42pm login or register to post comments

ouch! looks a lot like Velleius dilatatus to me...
dunno if this monster is available in the New World, though :)
… v belov, 14 June, 2010 - 1:44am login or register to post comments

 
Yah I can see the similaritie
Yah I can see the similarities..but this is the subgenus Megaquedius..I'll take a look at the revision tomorrow to see if I can narrow down a species. Western only group.

Adam
… Adam Brunke, 14 June, 2010 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

 
great; thanks again, Adam
i'll be waiting
… v belov, 14 June, 2010 - 8:14am login or register to post comments

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