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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Staphylinina » Creophilus » Hairy Rove Beetle (Creophilus maxillosus)
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Hairy Rove Beetle - Creophilus maxillosus - male
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Hairy Rove Beetle - Creophilus maxillosus - Male
St Albans, Franklin County, Vermont, USA
April 19, 2006
Size: 16mm
I collected this from an animal carcas, and placed it in a container with with some other beetles. The others were smaller than this one, and half of them got eaten.
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Contributed by tom murray on 20 April, 2006 - 8:45pm
Last updated 21 April, 2006 - 6:34am

Congratulations
For this impressive gallery of rove beetles. Indeed, had a lecturer to introduce a naive public into the diversity of this group, he would have there a ideal set of excellent pictures!
C. maxillosus, a fierce predator as you could see, is also present in Europe. The broadenend fore tarsi of this one show this is a male specimen.
… Richard Vernier, 21 April, 2006 - 3:48am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Richard
Next time I'll have more containers to keep beetles like this away from the others.
… tom murray, 21 April, 2006 - 6:37am login or register to post comments

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