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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Lebiini » Dromiusina » Microlestes
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Carabid - Microlestes
Copyright © 2012 Jeff Gruber & UW-Madison Dept. of Entomology

Carabid - Microlestes
US87 @ Sycamore Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
April 19, 2012
Found crawling on coarse sand along creek margin.

All pics taken with automontage system. Actual montaging done with CombineZP.

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 3 May, 2012 - 10:30pm
Last updated 4 May, 2012 - 10:40pm

Moved
Moved from Apristus.
… Tim Loh, 4 May, 2012 - 10:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Dromiina.
… v belov, 4 May, 2012 - 12:42am login or register to post comments

Apristus sp.
Species ID may be problematic though...
… Tim Loh, 3 May, 2012 - 11:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Tentative questions:
Is the base of pronotum perhaps lobed (not truncated) and are the elytral striae too indstinct to be Apristus? Why not Microlestes? Just wondering. Jeff, this one would challenge me even if scoped.
… Peter W. Messer, 4 May, 2012 - 1:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes you are right!
Made a blunder here..it is Microlestes..also a very difficult genus..Lindroth mentions possible new/undescribed species in the south and it looks like there hasn't been a recent revision of the group since Lindroth's work in 1968.
… Tim Loh, 4 May, 2012 - 10:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… v belov, 3 May, 2012 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

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