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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Chlaeniini » Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles (Chlaenius) » subgenus Chlaenius (Chlaenius subgenus Chlaenius) » aestivus group (Chlaenius aestivus group) » Chlaenius aestivus
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Chlaenius aestivus - male
Copyright © 2014 John R. Maxwell

Chlaenius aestivus - Male
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, Pennington, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
July 27, 2014
Size: Maybe around 17 mm?
I think that this is another Chlaenius aestivus

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Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 13 September, 2014 - 3:49pm
Last updated 22 July, 2016 - 9:42am

Moved
Moved from Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles.
… v belov, 23 September, 2014 - 6:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 13 September, 2014 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

Chlaenius yes...
that's about all I can say; I don't know the eastern spp. well.
… Blaine Mathison, 13 September, 2014 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

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