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Photo#941453
Meloe Sp? - Meloe americanus - female

Meloe Sp? - Meloe americanus - Female
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.

rather is . . .
M. campanicollis (terminal segments of antennae rather stout).

Meloe americanus --det. J.D. Pinto
Moved from Oil Beetles.

thinking, impressus; we'll see
Moved from Beetles.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

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