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Margined Carrion Beetle - Oiceoptoma noveboracense

Margined Carrion Beetle - Oiceoptoma noveboracense
Bunker Hill Forest Preserve, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
April 23, 2011
Size: ~12mm
We think we have these ID'd correctly. We found them on a deer carcass in the open oak savanna.

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Margined Carrion Beetle - Oiceoptoma noveboracense Margined Carrion Beetle - Oiceoptoma noveboracense

Yeah,
these guys are easy. No other US silphid has these pronotal markings.

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