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Buttercup Oil Beetle (Meloe americanus)
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Copyright © 2014
Dan Small
Meloe Sp? -
Meloe americanus
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Chestertown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, USA
April 20, 2014
Found on a mowed grass lane in the middle of a 228 acre warm season grassland. I'm guessing it is a female based on the almost straight antennae without an exaggerated kink.
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Contributed by
Dan Small
on 20 June, 2014 - 3:41pm
Last updated 6 August, 2014 - 8:32pm
rather is . . .
M. campanicollis (terminal segments of antennae rather stout).
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Boris Büche
, 13 February, 2025 - 3:56pm
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Meloe americanus --det. J.D. Pinto
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v belov
, 6 August, 2014 - 8:32pm
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thinking, impressus; we'll see
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