Apteroloma caraboides
This high elevation snowfield beetle resembles a ground beetle, but is in fact a primitive carrion beetle in the family Agyrtidae. This one forages for insects that have fallen onto the ice. Sierra Nevada, California, USA.
Nicrophorus orbicollis
Nicrophorus orbicollis burying beetle. Dixon Springs, Illinois, USA
Hololepta
Hololepta - Clown Beetle. Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, USA. filename: hololepta3
A flat clown beetle slips out from its hiding place under tree bark. Note the mites riding on its forelegs. Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.
Hister lagoi
Portrait of a clown beetle. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA. Thanks to Michael Caterino for the ID.
Plochionocerus
Plochionocerus rove beetle curled up in defensive position. Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador
Plochionocerus rove beetle Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador
Philonthus
A rove beetle folds its membranous flight wings away under the hardened elytra after arriving to a porch light. Austin, Texas, USA.
An antlike stone beetle (Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Yandoit, Victoria, Australia
Adranes
An Adranes ant beetle inside the brood nest of a Lasius field ant. California, USA.
Rove beetle larvae (Staphylinidae) in a rotting log. Kibale forest, Uganda
Phacophallus tricolor
The tricolored rove beetle is a common introduced species found near areas of human habitation around the world. Dripping Springs, Texas, USA.
Stenus
Few rove beetles seem more alert than Stenus, whose large eyes and quick movements help them hunt prey along the shores of lakes and rivers. Lakehills, Texas, USA.
The rove beetle genus Stenus is among the world's largest genera, with many thousands of species. Lakehills, Texas, USA.
Staphylinidae
Up close with a paederine rove beetle. Dripping Springs, Texas, USA.
Dripping Springs, Texas, USA.
Vatesus sp.
Some of the world's strangest and most interesting beetles live only in ant colonies, skimming from the ants' vast resources to make their living. Here, a Vatesus rove beetle runs in a colony of Eciton army ants. Armenia, Belize
Phanolinus
A colorful rove beetle from the Ecuadorian cloud forest. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
In an impressive display of multi-tasking, a rove beetle mates while hunting an injured ant. Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Scaphidium
Shining fungus beetles are a lineage of compact rove beetles specialized for feeding on fungus. Trotter's Bluff, Tennessee, USA.
Berosus peregrinus
Portrait of a small water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae. Dripping Springs, Texas, USA.
Ochthebius
Minute moss beetles. Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA.
