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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Stag Beetles (Lucanidae) » Lucanus
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Stag Beetle Larva - Lucanus
Copyright © 2005 Cotinis

Stag Beetle Larva - Lucanus
Parkwood, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
April 16, 2005
Size: 55 mm
Thorax, showing stridulatory apparatus on hind leg. Stridulation in stag beetle larvae says: The stridulatory apparatus of stag beetle larvae consists of a pars stridens on the coxae on the middle legs and a plectrum on the trochanter of the hind legs.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 28 April, 2005 - 4:56am

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