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Diving beetle

Colymbetes sculptilis

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42.4781, -72.608

Field Notes

Description:

About 15-17 millimeters in length, colored as shown.

Habitat:

Found at lights outside of a bank drive-thru in a rural town. Surrounding habitat is deciduous forest interrupted by agricultural fields, ballfields, railroad.

Notes:

Aquatic.

Reference Links:

Species Colymbetes sculptilis - BugGuide.Net

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