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Amber Rove Beetle

Mycetoporus lepidus

About

A tiny, elongate rove beetle with an amber-brown coloration and fine pubescence. It lives in the humus layer of forests where it hunts among decaying leaves and mosses.

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Did You Know?

This beetle is so small and cryptic that it was overlooked by entomologists for decades until modern extraction techniques revealed its abundance.