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Carabidae - Harpalus rufipes
Copyright © 2006 Mardon Erbland

Carabidae - Harpalus rufipes
Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
June 26, 2006
Size: 13 mm Body Length
My wife found this beetle crawling on our carpet this morning and gave it to me to photograph instead of killing it. I appreciate her supporting my photography but even I have to admit this goes above and beyond what I would expect! :) Anyway, now that I've photographed it, can anyone identify a genus/species?

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 26 June, 2006 - 6:24pm
Last updated 25 May, 2007 - 5:58am

Moved
Moved from Harpalus.
… Boris Büche, 25 May, 2007 - 5:58am

Carabidae
No it does not click, this is a ground beetle, very likely genus Harpalus, which got lost in your house...
… Martin Hauser, 26 June, 2006 - 6:52pm

 
Thanks!
Thanks. I should have known it wasn't a click beetle because it wasn't doing any jumping. It's so hard for a novice like me to tell these things apart. I thought it looked like some of the Click Beetles but then again I kept wondering about its 'neck' being too narrow to be a click beetle.
… Mardon Erbland, 26 June, 2006 - 7:03pm

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