A mating pair of Ridged Carrion Beetles in Harford Co., Maryland (4/22/2018).

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A Ridged Carrion Beetle in Harford Co., Maryland (3/30/2018).

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Ridged Carrion Beetles in Montgomery Co., Maryland (3/29/2020).

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A pair of mating Ridged Carrion Beetles in a deer carcass in Baltimore City, Maryland (4/4/2015). Determined by V. Belov/BugGuide.

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Ridged Carrion Beetles (all dark) with American Carrion and Margined Carrion Beetles in St. Mary's Co., Maryland (5/29/2010).

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Ridged Carrion Beetles in Talbot Co., Maryland (5/3/2016).

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A Ridged Carrion Beetle in Calvert Co., Maryland (3/13/2020).

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Ridged Carrion Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/16/2018). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY).

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A Ridged Carrion Beetle in St. Mary's Co., Maryland (6/21/2018).

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Ridged Carrion Beetle in Harford Co., Maryland (4/29/2017).

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Ridged Carrion Beetle in Caroline Co., Maryland (4/25/2018).

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A mating pair of Ridged Carrion Beetles in Harford Co., Maryland (4/22/2018). View Record Details Media by Josh Emm.

A Ridged Carrion Beetle in Harford Co., Maryland (3/30/2018). View Record Details Media by Dave Webb.

Ridged Carrion Beetles in Montgomery Co., Maryland (3/29/2020). View Record Details Media by Jim Moore.

A pair of mating Ridged Carrion Beetles in a deer carcass in Baltimore City, Maryland (4/4/2015). Determined by V. Belov/BugGuide. View Record Details Media by Thomas Wilson.

Ridged Carrion Beetles (all dark) with American Carrion and Margined Carrion Beetles in St. Mary's Co., Maryland (5/29/2010). View Record Details Media by Bill Hubick.

Ridged Carrion Beetles in Talbot Co., Maryland (5/3/2016). View Record Details Media by Jim Stasz.

A Ridged Carrion Beetle in Calvert Co., Maryland (3/13/2020). View Record Details Media by Ben Springer.

Ridged Carrion Beetle in Baltimore Co., Maryland (6/12/2022). (c) Matthew Beziat, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). View Record Details Media by Matthew Beziat.

Ridged Carrion Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/16/2018). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY). View Record Details Media by Katja Schulz via iNaturalist.

A Ridged Carrion Beetle in St. Mary's Co., Maryland (6/21/2018). View Record Details Media by Tyler Bell.

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Oiceoptoma inaequale

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Silphidae
Genus:	Oiceoptoma
Species:	O. inaequale
Binomial name
*Oiceoptoma inaequale* (Fabricius, 1781)

Oiceoptoma inaequale, the ridged carrion beetle, is a species of carrion beetle in the family Silphidae. It is found in North America.^[1]^[2]^[3]

It has been witnessed breeding in and on a western rat snake carcass.^[4]

References

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^ "Oiceoptoma inaequale Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Oiceoptoma inaequale". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Oiceoptoma inaequale species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ Unger, Shem; Hull, Zeb; Rollins, Mark (2019). "Diversity of vertebrate and invertebrate scavenging communities of reptile carcasses in the piedmont of North Carolina, USA". Biodiversity Journal. 10 (1): 47–56. doi:10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2019.10.1.47.56.

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Taxon identifiers
Oiceoptoma inaequale	Wikidata: Q21301094 Wikispecies: Oiceoptoma inaequale BioLib: 540997 BOLD: 591037 BugGuide: 6746 CoL: 48ZFL EoL: 3383909 GBIF: 7780651 iNaturalist: 226274 ITIS: 1014342 NatureServe: 2.747514 NCBI: 1542178 Open Tree of Life: 5825415

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Ridged Carrion Beetle

Oiceoptoma inaequale Fabricius, 1781

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