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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Aleocharinae » Falagriini
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Tiny Rove Beetle
Copyright © 2006 Lynette Elliott

Tiny Rove Beetle
Thompson Falls, Sanders County, Montana, USA
September 28, 2006
Size: around 2 mm
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 26 October, 2006 - 7:56am
Last updated 12 February, 2019 - 12:25pm

Moved
Moved from Falagria.
… Curt Harden, 12 February, 2019 - 12:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aleocharinae.
… Lynette Elliott, 28 November, 2006 - 7:42am login or register to post comments

I support Donalds opinion
To me, Falagria sp. seems the only possibility to place this one. Characteristics: slender legs and antennae, constrictions between head, pronotum, elytra and abdomen, and deeply sulcate pronotum.

cheers, Boris
… Boris Büche, 28 November, 2006 - 4:08am login or register to post comments

Moved
Thanks for your comments and help.
… Lynette Elliott, 27 October, 2006 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae
Not a pselaphine - all but very few have distinctly clubbed antennae. This one reminds me of Falagria due to the longitudinally sulcate pronotal disc, but I try not to know too much about this subfamily.
… Donald S. Chandler, 26 October, 2006 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Ok! I didn't know that they h
Ok! I didn't know that they have Aleocharinae of this shape. I'll be more cautious next time...
… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 27 October, 2006 - 2:44pm login or register to post comments

Pselaphinae
It's a member of the subfamilly Pselaphinae, but I can't go further in the identification...
… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 26 October, 2006 - 8:33am login or register to post comments

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