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 Big black "bug"
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 29-12-2007 14:34
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 Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
Quite a big insect, about 25mm long. When disturbed, the lower part of the abdomen is raised and it looks like a scorpion. No idea of what it is. Thanks, Joaquim Gaspar Lisboa Alvesgaspar attached the following image:  [132.01Kb] |
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 29-12-2007 14:35
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Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
Here is another view showing the "tail"
Alvesgaspar attached the following image:  [144.55Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 29-12-2007 14:40
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It's a 'rove beetle' - member of the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera). See here - http://en.wikiped...ove_beetle  |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 29-12-2007 15:13
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
It's Ocypus olens - the biggest and the most common of the staphylinids- |
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| Alvesgaspar |
Posted on 29-12-2007 16:43
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Member Location: Lisbon, Portugal Posts: 573 Joined: 24.08.07 |
Thank you, Chris and Isidro, I really should know better  Maybe I was frightened by the critter... I suppose the name Staphylinus olens is an old designation? |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 29-12-2007 20:42
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14364 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello! Alvesgaspar wrote: Thank you, Chris and Isidro, I really should know better Maybe I was frightened by the critter... I suppose the name Staphylinus olens is an old designation?Mostly it is called Ocypus olens nowadays, but not all experts share the opinion, that the Ocypus species should be placed in an own genus, apart from Staphylinus. BTW: O. olens is the biggest, the one with the most robust head and commonest in most parts of Europe, but there are other species - depending on location. So I would write Ocypus cf. olens. Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 30-12-2007 10:34
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
For me, it's olens without doubts... other Ocypus are different in bright, size of head, punctuation, etc. -and are much rarer- |
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