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Beetle - Apteroloma tahoecum
Copyright © 2012 Jim Moore

Beetle - Apteroloma tahoecum
Mountain Meadows Reservoir area next to Westwood, elevation 5050ft, Lassen County, California, USA
September 20, 2011
Size: 6 mm
This beetle is one of several found wet soil, under wood debris, right next to the shoreline of the reservoir. This was along the southwest shoreline where the woods come right up next to the shoreline. Two additional specimens are linked below:

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Contributed by Jim Moore on 7 January, 2012 - 12:54am
Last updated 7 January, 2012 - 6:05am

Moved Tentatively
Moved from Beetles.

Keys out fairly well in Anderson and Peck (1985)...assuming I am interpreting the elytral epipleura as being impunctate correctly...
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