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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Dendrometrinae » Prosternini » Selatosomus » subgenus Pristilophus (Selatosomus subgenus Pristilophus) » Selatosomus edwardsi
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Click beetle ? - Selatosomus edwardsi
Copyright © 2008 Beth Sands

Click beetle ? - Selatosomus edwardsi
Silver Lake, El Dorado County, California, USA
June 14, 2008
Size: 1/2 "
This guy was found on the the Mules ears leaves . It bit my husband when he caught one in flight , after he tapped it to see if it would click . It looks like a Click beetle , but it would not click for us , but seemed hungry... hence the bite . Thanks for any comments to further our buggie knowledge , sincerely Beth
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Contributed by Beth Sands on 14 June, 2008 - 11:13pm
Last updated 8 October, 2016 - 9:52pm

Moved...no idea why I put this under festivus...
Moved from Selatosomus festivus.
… Blaine Mathison, 8 October, 2016 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Selatosomus pulcher.
… Blaine Mathison, 9 February, 2011 - 9:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Selatosomus.
… John R. Maxwell, 2 February, 2009 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

guess . . .
it is a Selatosomus sp. (formerly - and some in the guide still are - treated within Ctenicera).
… Boris Büche, 16 June, 2008 - 4:39am login or register to post comments

 
Selatosomus crusciatus has a
Selatosomus crusciatus has a melanic form in the area where this was collected. I am assuming that is what this is. I don't know of any other species from the area with the pronotal disc red with the black median stripe.
… Dennis Haines, 2 February, 2009 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

 
good call --
i also find the idea of this being a form of S.cruciatus very reasonable
… v belov, 6 February, 2009 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

Yes.
Click beetle indeed, though it might be masquerading as a firefly with that pattern on the pronotum (dorsal surface of thorax).
… Eric R. Eaton, 15 June, 2008 - 1:34am login or register to post comments

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