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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Staphylininae » Staphylinini » Staphylinina » Ocypus » Ocypus nitens
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Rove beetle - Ocypus nitens
Copyright © 2012 Marc DiGirolomo

Rove beetle - Ocypus nitens
Holden, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
April 2, 2010
Size: 15mm
Specimen deposited in MFD private collection.
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Contributed by Marc DiGirolomo on 28 March, 2012 - 2:04pm
Last updated 20 July, 2022 - 10:52am

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… Marc DiGirolomo, 28 January, 2016 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

This is Ocypus nitens, mind i
This is Ocypus nitens, mind if I use this collection data in a short paper that I'm writing?

Thanks in advance,
Adam
… Adam Brunke, 28 January, 2016 - 1:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Feel free
...to use this or any other of my staphs on here.
… Marc DiGirolomo, 28 January, 2016 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

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