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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Cleroidea » Checkered Beetles (Cleridae) » Korynetinae » Necrobia » Cosmopolitan Blue Bone Beetle (Necrobia violacea)
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On late-stage decay deer carcass - Necrobia violacea - male
Copyright © 2013 George Sims

On late-stage decay deer carcass - Necrobia violacea - Male
Douglas County, Missouri, USA
February 10, 2013
Size: 4 mm
On late-stage (skeletonized) deer carcass. Only one individual seen, in company of MANY Nitidula flavomaculata.

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On late-stage decay deer carcass - Necrobia violacea - male On late-stage decay deer carcass - Necrobia violacea - male
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Contributed by George Sims on 10 February, 2013 - 4:31pm
Last updated 12 February, 2013 - 6:03pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… margarethe brummermann, 12 February, 2013 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

Try digging!
I hear Trogidae larvae should be underneath but I haven't been out collecting in a long time (stupid grad school keeping me busy :) ) to check out how valid that is.
… Natalie Hernandez, 11 February, 2013 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

 
Have not dug underneath, but
Have not dug underneath, but will go out today and give it a try.
… George Sims, 11 February, 2013 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

Necrobia sp.
I suppose.
… Blaine Mathison, 10 February, 2013 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

 
yup. N. violacea, who else.
… v belov, 10 February, 2013 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you.
Blaine, Vassily,

Many thanks. My first in this family. Arnett doesn't mention finding it on dried carrion.
… George Sims, 11 February, 2013 - 9:06am login or register to post comments

 
I find them there.
Mostly N. rufipes but I collect dried carcasses to see what will emerge and these cuties often come out among the millions of nitidulids :)
… Natalie Hernandez, 11 February, 2013 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

 
Natalie
Thanks. I'm in the Missouri Ozarks, and have been keeping an eye on this carcass for two months now. Nothing left but bone and connective tissue. Earlier, all Catops, then the Nitidula arrived when the "corpse" reached the post-decay stage.
… George Sims, 11 February, 2013 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

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