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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Staphylinina » Platydracus » Platydracus immaculatus
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Copyright © 2012 Peter Hollinger

"fancy earwig" - Platydracus immaculatus
Strafford, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
October 5, 2012
Size: ~2cm
Found this bug there in the road (rural residential dirt road). Could it be some kind of sawfly or horntail male? Sorry for the frassable quality -- trying a new camera with a kit lens.

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Contributed by Peter Hollinger on 5 October, 2012 - 8:37pm
Last updated 13 October, 2012 - 12:16pm

Moved
Moved from Platydracus.
… v belov, 13 October, 2012 - 12:16pm login or register to post comments

This is Platydracus immaculat
This is Platydracus immaculatus, although photos are blurry they provide a nice datapoint for Vermont since only two localities were previously known (Brunke et al. 2011).

Cheers,
Adam
… Adam Brunke, 7 October, 2012 - 4:14am login or register to post comments

 
sweet... thanks, guys
… v belov, 13 October, 2012 - 12:16pm login or register to post comments

Platydracus immaculatus, i suppose
but for that possibility, would have been frassable )))

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 6 October, 2012 - 9:32am login or register to post comments

Looks like a big Rove beetle
of some sort. Some are quite big
… john and jane balaban, 5 October, 2012 - 8:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Rove beetle
Thanks!
… Peter Hollinger, 5 October, 2012 - 9:04pm login or register to post comments

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