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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Meloinae » Oil Beetles (Meloe) » subgenus Meloe (Meloe subgenus Meloe) » Meloe campanicollis
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Big Bug - Meloe campanicollis - female
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Big Bug - Meloe campanicollis - Female
Evansburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
November 5, 2013
Size: ~2.5 cm
While in an old graveyard (looking for grave stones for genealogical purposes) my daughter spotted this critter in the grass walking towards a grave marker. This 'big beetle' crawled at a steady pace and when threatened stopped in its tracks not moving for several moments before resuming its trek.

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Big Bug - Meloe campanicollis - female Big Bug - Meloe campanicollis - female
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Contributed by WanderingMogwai on 5 November, 2013 - 11:39pm
Last updated 5 February, 2014 - 12:30pm

Moved
Moved from Oil Beetles.
… v belov, 5 February, 2014 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

suspect campanicollis; nice pics, hope Dr Pinto confirms
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 6 November, 2013 - 7:11am login or register to post comments

 
ID confirmed by J.D. Pinto
… v belov, 5 February, 2014 - 12:31pm login or register to post comments

Oil Beetle in the genus Meloe
A female. In the Guide here.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 6 November, 2013 - 5:06am login or register to post comments

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