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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Oxynopterinae » Melanactes
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Click Beetle - Melanactes
Copyright © 2015 William Hull

Click Beetle - Melanactes
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
July 9, 2015
This was one of the larger local click beetles I have seen. Not as large as an eyed, but pretty big. I could not get close to it so can not give a good estimate.

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Contributed by William Hull on 20 July, 2015 - 11:14am

Moved tentatively
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 20 July, 2015 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

 
genus is sound
elytral striae seem too well-marked for M. piceus. Tough genus without specimen in-hand, as examination of pronotal microsculpture is very helpful.
… Blaine Mathison, 20 July, 2015 - 11:58am login or register to post comments

 
Blaine, I added a full crop o
Blaine, I added a full crop of the pronatum. Don't know if that will help, though. :)
… William Hull, 20 July, 2015 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

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