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LB BS - Polemius limbatus
Copyright © 2017 Chris Joll

LB BS - Polemius limbatus
Beverly Shores / Calumet Bike Trail, Porter County, Indiana, USA
August 5, 2017
Found in afternoon on Daucus carota. Does not seem to have a light organ but resembles a lightning bug

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Contributed by Chris Joll on 27 August, 2017 - 10:29am
Last updated 18 April, 2021 - 7:48pm

Moved tentatively to Polemius limbatus
...it's definitely a cantharid, however.

Moved from Lampyrinae.
… Blaine Mathison, 27 August, 2017 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

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