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Description:

Found this fella in our garden in Cornwall (UK). Is he a beetle or true bug?

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
injica
definitely Meloe sp., read more about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meloe
paul_m_davies
Thanks for moving to the correct section. He doesn't have the T section wing case of a beetle, more of a Y structure like a true bug.
LivanEscudero
It's a beetle, I believe a kind of Oil Beetle (Meloe sp.). You can change from "other" to Arthropod.
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PublishedApril 20, 2013

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