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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Licinini » Badister » Subgenus Baudia (Badister Subgenus Baudia) » micans group (Badister micans group) » Badister micans
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Carabid - Badister micans
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

Carabid - Badister micans
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 27, 2012
Size: 6mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 29 August, 2012 - 5:05pm
Last updated 14 January, 2013 - 7:38am

Moved
Moved from Badister micans.
Thanks Peter. The info page here has Badister ocularis as a synonym of B. micans.
… tom murray, 12 January, 2013 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Badister.
… v belov, 12 January, 2013 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

Badister ocularis
based on my microscopic examination of this specimen which is now a photo-voucher in the P.W.Messer collection. Thanks Tom.
… Peter W. Messer, 12 January, 2013 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

 
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- [basically same comment as v]
… Brad Barnd, 12 January, 2013 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

 
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"
… v belov, 12 January, 2013 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Good to know
that more than one taxonomic police is working day and night for us. Thanks for jogging my failing memory!
… Peter W. Messer, 13 January, 2013 - 8:34am login or register to post comments

 
Peter,
what those comments really mean, nomenclatural technicalities aside, is that we're all impatient waiting for your IDs, so we can learn
… v belov, 13 January, 2013 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

 
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.
… Peter W. Messer, 13 January, 2013 - 11:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Brad Barnd, 29 August, 2012 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

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