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Agabus perplexus (Sharp) - Ilybiosoma perplexum - female
Copyright © 2010 Tim Loh

Agabus perplexus (Sharp) - Ilybiosoma perplexum - Female
North Hoy Creek, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
July 18, 2010
Size: 9.5 mm
Dipnetted from the margins of a small stream running through rainforest. In the A. seriatus group but is usually broader, less shiny, & more coarsely sculptured than A. seriatus. A lotic species of coastal rainforest streams in the northwest.
Contributed by Tim Loh on 19 July, 2010 - 1:42pm
Last updated 17 September, 2010 - 4:25pm

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