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Common Name:
Root-eating Beetle

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Superclass: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cucujoidea
Family: Monotomidae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Species:
Monotoma parallela

Hodges No:

Location:
Pymatuning Reservoir
Crawford County, PA
USA

Date: 7/20/08

Notes:

Monotoma parallela Monotomidae
Root-eating Beetle
Identifications represent best guesses on my part and are not intended to be authoritative.
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