Water Scavenger Beetle

Tropisternus lateralis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hydrophilidae

Tropisternus lateralis is a species of hydrophilid beetle that ranges across much of the Americas. Description Adult T. lateralis nimabatus, the subspecies found in the eastern United States, are distinguished by having uniformly dark elytra and pronotum with light-colored borders.

Distribution

Water Scavenger Beetle — (c) Lucas Rubio, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Lucas Rubio · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Peru · 4

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Lucas Rubio, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Lucas Rubio · CC-BY DescriptionTropisternus lateralis, Wikipedia contributors

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