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  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Beetles
  7. ›Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles
  8. ›Staphyliniform Beetles
  9. ›Water Scavenger and Clown Beetles
  10. ›Water Scavenger Beetles
  11. ›Sphaeridiinae
  12. ›Coelostomatini
Pelosoma
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Pelosoma

Pelosoma is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are about seven described species in Pelosoma.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Pelosoma prosternale

speciesPelosoma prosternale

Pelosoma scotti

speciesPelosoma scotti

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1011622.