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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Patrobinae » Patrobini » Diplous » Diplous californicus
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Weird ground beetle - Diplous californicus - male
Copyright © 2013 Andrew McKorney

Weird ground beetle - Diplous californicus - Male
Mt. Hood area, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
July 2, 2011
Size: 16 mm
I have found this ground beetle under a log but didn't touch it for quite a while. Only very recently I realized that is something very new for me. At the first moment I though this is just a regular Pterostichus but these unusually long coxae make me feel completely lost...
I'm really looking for help with ID or/and explanation why this specimen (species) has such a weird coxae. Thank you in advance!

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Contributed by Andrew McKorney on 28 January, 2013 - 11:40pm
Last updated 29 January, 2013 - 8:07am

cool bug... you've had it before
these are trochanters, not coxae.
all it took me to find this oddity in(1) was search for 'trochant'... you should try it ))))))

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 29 January, 2013 - 8:02am login or register to post comments

 
Great!
"V", thanks a lot for your ID! I was completely lost when I saw these long trochanters...
Did you mean Patrobus trochantericus as a synonym for this guy? Seems like this name would be a real name for my specimen!
… Andrew McKorney, 29 January, 2013 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

 
yup, the male was described as trochantericus
… v belov, 30 January, 2013 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

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