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MNaseer Hithadhoo, Maldives Nov 28, 2016

Can you identify this beetle

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Nov 28, 2016

Look like water scavenger beetles (family Hydrophilidae)...

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MNaseer Hithadhoo, Maldives Nov 28, 2016

Thank you for your help. I am from the Maldive Islands. This beetle is found only in one Atoll. To the best of my knowledge, there is only one pond around this area.
These beetles fly, in the evening and come under lights and fall on the ground.
The elytra are dark green, somewhat shiny. The body is brown.
I will keep this post for some more time, hoping you or someone else can give some more information.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Nov 29, 2016

Can you post more images of these? I would like to see a side view, as well as a head shot that shoes the antennae and a clearer view if the ventral aspect of these beetles. Upon further review of your images (I'd only hurriedly glanced at them yesterday while I was on a public computer), I feel that they possibly could be predaceous diving beetles (family Dytiscidae). See https://thedragonflywoman.com/2011/04/11/dystiscid-vs-hydrophilid/ for pointers on distinguishing dytiscids from hydrophilids.

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