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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Ant-like Stone Beetles (Scydmaeninae) » Glandulariini » Euconnus » subgenus Pycnophus (Euconnus subgenus Pycnophus) » Euconnus rasus
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Scydmaeninae? - Euconnus rasus
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Scydmaeninae? - Euconnus rasus
Randolph, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
May 1, 2011
Size: 1.9mm
I found this little beetle under bark, living in a colony of Tapinoma sessile ants.

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Scydmaeninae? - Euconnus rasus Scydmaeninae? - Euconnus rasus
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Contributed by tom murray on 2 May, 2011 - 7:53am
Last updated 2 May, 2011 - 9:56am

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
Thanks Jeff. I'll save the specimen for Don Chandler. The UNH site shows 7 species of Euconnus, but not E. rasus.
… tom murray, 2 May, 2011 - 9:56am login or register to post comments

yup
Sweet pics as usual!

Suspect it is Euconnus rasus, and if you still have the specimen it keys easily using just American Beetles.

Nice find.
… Jeff Gruber, 2 May, 2011 - 9:43am login or register to post comments

 
cool indeed
'the shaved one'
… v belov, 2 May, 2011 - 12:32pm login or register to post comments

 
ha
with just a hint of sideburns
… Jeff Gruber, 2 May, 2011 - 4:50pm login or register to post comments

 
yeah... classy
i really think that that's what rasus means... will check my sources
… v belov, 2 May, 2011 - 5:00pm login or register to post comments

 
yup:
'scraped, shaved'(1)
… v belov, 2 May, 2011 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

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