Red-Shouldered Ham Beetle Necrobia ruficollis (Fabricius, 1775)Adventive    
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Coleoptera   >   Family Cleridae   >   Genus Necrobia   

Status:

"Native to the Palaearctic (now cosmopolitan); adventive in North America, but rather uncommon both here and in Eurasia" (BugGuide).

Where to find:

"Often on skin/bones of dead animals and on fishmeal" (Robinson, 2005/BugGuide).

There is 1 record in the project database.

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A Red-Shouldered Ham Beetle in Dorchester Co., Maryland (4/22/2016). Verified by Blaine Mathison/BugGuide. Photo by Jonathan Willey. (MBP list)


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