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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Licinini » Dicaelus
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Big Blue Ground Beetle larva - Dicaelus
Copyright © 2008 Cotinis

Big Blue Ground Beetle larva - Dicaelus
Twin Creeks Science Center, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
August 8, 2008
Size: 17mm
Another view.
We have several beetle larvae resembling this one in the guide, and there has been some debate about their identity as to family:

Phil Harpootlian, when consulted during the BugGuide 2008 Swarm, opined that this is a carabid larva. (Beetle expert David Maddison, in comments to the Flickr image here states he believes this is a Dicaelus.)

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Contributed by Cotinis on 18 August, 2008 - 2:38pm
Last updated 20 August, 2008 - 7:55pm

Moved
Moved from Larvae. (Beetle expert David Maddison, in comments to the Flickr image here states he believes this is a Dicaelus.)
… Cotinis, 20 August, 2008 - 7:53pm login or register to post comments

Larger Galerita larva?
Aside from being bulkier, and bluer, this looks very much like the images that have been identified as larvae of Galerita, the false bombardier beetles.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 August, 2008 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… john and jane balaban, 18 August, 2008 - 2:47pm login or register to post comments

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