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red-shouldered click beetle - Ampedus pullus
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

red-shouldered click beetle - Ampedus pullus
Greenfield, New Hampshire, USA
May 5, 2005
Size: 7mm

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red-shouldered click beetle - Ampedus pullus red-shouldered click beetle - Ampedus pullus
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Contributed by tom murray on 8 May, 2005 - 6:57am
Last updated 24 August, 2007 - 3:38pm

Moved
Identified by: Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.
… tom murray, 24 August, 2007 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Click Beetles.
… tom murray, 1 December, 2006 - 7:16am login or register to post comments

and found under bark, it seems?
Hi Tom!

If my suspicion is correct, it is sure a member of Ampedus. Other similar black-and-red Elaterids do not develop in dead wood. Though colour pattern is distinctive, it should not be difficult to ID this one to species.

cheers, Boris
… Boris Büche, 1 December, 2006 - 4:39am login or register to post comments

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