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Photo#696971
Carabid - Badister micans

Carabid - Badister micans
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 27, 2012
Size: 6mm

Moved
Moved from Badister micans.
Thanks Peter. The info page here has Badister ocularis as a synonym of B. micans.

Moved
Moved from Badister.

Badister ocularis
based on my microscopic examination of this specimen which is now a photo-voucher in the P.W.Messer collection. Thanks Tom.

 
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- [basically same comment as v]

 
ocularis Casey is treated as jun.syn. of micans LeConte...
...in Bousquet's 2012 Catalogue: "Synonymy established with doubt by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 213), herein confirmed"

 
Good to know
that more than one taxonomic police is working day and night for us. Thanks for jogging my failing memory!

 
Peter,
what those comments really mean, nomenclatural technicalities aside, is that we're all impatient waiting for your IDs, so we can learn

 
That's just great -- another pressure added to my life.
Incidentally, this specimen measured 6 mm long which separates B. micans nicely from the otherwise similar but smaller B. reflexus at ~ 4 mm long.

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.

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