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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Platynini » Sericoda » Sericoda obsoleta
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Ground Beetle - Sericoda obsoleta
Copyright © 2012 Harvey Schmidt

Ground Beetle - Sericoda obsoleta
Creighton, Northern, Saskatchewan, Canada
June 16, 2012
Size: 7mm
Bothriopterus?

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Contributed by Harvey Schmidt on 17 June, 2012 - 7:49pm
Last updated 17 June, 2012 - 9:34pm

Moved tentatively based on Peter's comment
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Brad Barnd, 17 June, 2012 - 8:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Brad!
I'm not very good at these...
… Harvey Schmidt, 17 June, 2012 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

Sericoda obsoletus (Say)
certainly fits these images. Compare to images of Platynus consimilis LeConte, a synonym of S. obsoleta. Note the shiny silky dorsum, characteristic shape of pronotum, and the elongated elytra with parallel sides.
… Peter W. Messer, 17 June, 2012 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

 
gender: S. obsoleta sounds more appropriate
you use masculine in the subject line and feminine in the body comment
… v belov, 4 July, 2012 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

 
Feminine "obsoleta"
is indeed correct. Don't know what I was thinking!
… Peter W. Messer, 4 July, 2012 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

 
Thank You!
...
… Harvey Schmidt, 17 June, 2012 - 9:28pm login or register to post comments

Nein
probably Agonum sp., or at least something close to that
… Brad Barnd, 17 June, 2012 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

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