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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Zuphiini » Thalpius
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Small, Pale Beetle - Thalpius
Copyright © 2012 Bob Webster

Small, Pale Beetle - Thalpius
Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma, USA
September 6, 2012
Size: 5.4 mm
Euproctinus abjectus?

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Small, Pale Beetle - Thalpius Small, Pale Beetle - Thalpius
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Contributed by Bob Webster on 6 November, 2012 - 10:26am
Last updated 16 November, 2018 - 10:10am

Moved
Moved from Zuphiini.
… v belov, 16 November, 2018 - 10:10am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 6 November, 2012 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

maybe Thalpius sp.
kind of an awkward angle...
… Brad Barnd, 6 November, 2012 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

 
must be it, in a broader sense
nice find, Bob -- too bad the angle is indeed unfortunate
per(1), Pseudaptinus pygmaeus and P. tenuicollis occur in OK, but that resource is not up-to-date
… v belov, 6 November, 2012 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
One more, a little blurry.
Here's one I took a few weeks earlier. It's got a little better angle, but poorer image quality. Of course, there's no guarantee it's the same species. In fact, the distance from the eye to the neck seems shorter in the photo I took earlier:
… Bob Webster, 6 November, 2012 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

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