Rove Beetles (Three photos)

Rove beetles, or Staphylinidae, are the largest family among the beetles. They are easy to recognise as their elytra (or wing covers) are quite short and so many of the abdominal segments are revealed. Several of the orange coloured Rove beetles in the first photo have been showing up at my moth light the last few nights. This is quite a small beetle at around 8 to 10 mm in length.

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Here is another species of Rove beetle. This one was found in my garage back in October. It's larger that the previous one at 20mm.

This last one is from some years ago. I have a name for this one. It's Creophilus lanio.

No doubt there are some kind of Rover beetle in your part of the world too. I was going to include some Scottish ones that I photographed way back, however they are not in my photo database so I'll have to wait until I stumble upon them some day.

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