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Small Snail Eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus - female
Copyright © 2013 tom murray

Small Snail Eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus - Female
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 7, 2013
Size: 14mm
Contributed by tom murray on 8 April, 2013 - 9:12pm
Last updated 7 August, 2013 - 11:12am

Moved
Moved from Small Snail Eating Beetles.
… tom murray, 28 July, 2013 - 12:07pm

Sphaeroderus stenostomus lecontei
based on my microscopic examination of this female specimen which is now a photo-voucher in the P.W.Messer collection. Thanks Tom.
… Peter W. Messer, 28 July, 2013 - 11:52am

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