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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 » Staphylinina » Platydracus » Platydracus maculosus
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long brown bug - Platydracus maculosus
Copyright © 2011 ROBIN ARMSTRONG SEEBER

long brown bug - Platydracus maculosus
West Alexander, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 1, 2011
Size: 30mm
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Contributed by ROBIN ARMSTRONG SEEBER on 1 September, 2011 - 3:43pm
Last updated 8 September, 2011 - 3:04pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Blaine Mathison, 8 September, 2011 - 3:04pm login or register to post comments

Rove beetle
This beetle is in family Staphylinidae. The staphylinids are the second largest family of beetles, with about 46,000 species world wide. They're predators, and often found around decaying wood. Note the really short front wings - with the filiform antennae, diagnostic for this group. Because of their short front wings, they're good at moving fast and wriggling around obstacles. It's an old group of beetles. Fossils date back to the Triassic, about 200 million years ago.
… Joe, 1 September, 2011 - 10:06pm login or register to post comments

Rove Beetle
Maybe Platydracus maculosus?

… Yurika Alexander, 1 September, 2011 - 3:52pm login or register to post comments

in my garden
I saw this appear to fly, then land in the garden and race to hid under a stone
… ROBIN ARMSTRONG SEEBER, 1 September, 2011 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

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