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Small Carion Beetle - Catops
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Small Carion Beetle - Catops
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 27, 2006
Size: 3.7mm
Contributed by tom murray on 27 May, 2006 - 9:37pm
Last updated 19 January, 2011 - 5:02pm

Moved
Moved from Prionochaeta opaca.
… tom murray, 19 January, 2011 - 5:02pm

more likely Catops
Prionochaeta has very long hind tibial spurs, and it looks like this guy has short spurs. Catops seems the more likely genus here. I kinda feel the same way about the other picture in this genus as well.
… Brad Barnd, 19 January, 2011 - 1:38am

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