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Pterostichus trinarius
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Copyright © 2014
roar
purplish Ptero. -
Pterostichus trinarius
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 3, 2014
Size: 13mm
This photo doesn't show the purple too well but in natural light it was very colorful.
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Contributed by
roar
on 4 May, 2014 - 11:30am
Last updated 19 February, 2015 - 4:33pm
thanks all for the nice addition
hope the ID holds
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v belov
, 19 February, 2015 - 4:33pm
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Pterostichus trinarius
is indeed a good fit for these images.
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Peter W. Messer
, 19 February, 2015 - 3:34pm
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Could it be Pterostichus tri*narius? That's a beetle in the mutus group, so the size of this one fits.
I've never seen this beetle myself, but one of the synonyms is Ptero. purpur*atus, and it looks purplish in the
picture here
(carabidae of the world).
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Curt Harden
, 16 February, 2015 - 5:02pm
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v belov
, 20 June, 2014 - 9:40am
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