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Common Name:
Oil Beetle

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Meloidae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Species:
Meloe sp.

Hodges No:

Location:
Jamaica Bay
Queens, NY
USA

Date:

Stage: Adult
Sex:
Notes:

Image at BugGuide:

Meloe sp. Meloidae
Oil Beetle
Identifications represent best guesses on my part and are not intended to be authoritative.
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