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Red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracicum).
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Representative beetles.
From R.A. Pimentel, Invertebrate Identification Manual, Β© 1967 by Litton Educational Publishing, Inc.; reprinted by permission of Van Nostrand Reinhold Company