Subject: Rove Beetle, Homaeotarsus sp.

Location: Upshur County, West Virginia

Stock Number: 05-7387

Comments: Members of this genus are found in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, though not in Europe or Australasia.

Adults are most often found in plant litter on the ground in prairie, wetlands, and forest. They are also found, as this one was, under the bark of a dead tree.