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Field Notes

Description:

Quick running bug, black with yellow "puzzlepieces" on its back. About 5cm

Habitat:

Outside our gate, Rasada Phuket near jungle and mangroves.
It was night.

Species ID Suggestions

Ground Beetle

Dischissus mirandus
LennyWorthington
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Ground Beetle

Craspedophorus sublaevis

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bayucca
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Comments (3)
bayucca
Carabidae, Panagaeini, Craspedophorus sp. and looks like being Craspedophorus sublaevis. http://www.extremnews.com/nachrichten/natur-und-umwelt/edc513f93564b82/3e7113f93564c1f/info http://molbiol.ru/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t362383.html http://carabidae.org/carabidae/taxa/sublaevis-chaudoir.html
KeithRoragen
This is a Ground Beetle(Carabidae). One name that has been given is Yellow-spotted Ground Beetle. There has been some discussion in previous spottings at PN as to whether it is in the genus Panageus or Craspedohorus. See the discussion here. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8470809

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PublishedNovember 11, 2012

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