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25-04-2009, 10:45 AM
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| | | Rove Beetle ID
Is this Platydracus stercorarius? It was on a moorland path in Kielder Forest, Northumberland.  |
25-04-2009, 03:36 PM
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| | | Re: Rove Beetle ID
I think it's a Staphylinus caesareus 
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25-04-2009, 04:42 PM
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| | | Re: Rove Beetle ID
Definately Staphylinus sp but the smooth pronotum and elytra suggest S.erythropterus . |
25-04-2009, 04:51 PM
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Thanks for the input guys. A quick google on all three species shows that they seem to all look pretty much the same...  |
25-04-2009, 04:58 PM
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| | | Re: Rove Beetle ID
Yes thats the problem with these guys  , although....
The two similar genera Platydracus & Staphylinus. Staphylinus is seperated as is has gold hairs on the head, (in some species the pronotum) and a more rounded pronotum. S.erythropterus lacks these hairs on the pronotum (which is often smooth and bald), S.caesareus however has a tiny covering of gold hairs on it. Yours to me looks more like S.erythropterus due to this. | | |
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