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Predaceous Diving Beetles

Copelatus caelatipennis

Photo by Machi
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Field Notes

Description:

A small water beetle found after weeks of rain

Habitat:

Found in a wheelbarrow full of rainwater in a suburban yard next to a forest

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
Doren B
It might be one of the Dytiscidae - Predaceous Diving Beetles, but there are hundreds of species in that family. http://bugguide.net/node/view/195

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PublishedSeptember 3, 2015

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