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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Net-winged Beetles (Lycidae) » Lycinae » Calopterini » Caenia » Caenia dimidiata

Species Caenia dimidiata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Lycidae (Net-winged Beetles)
Subfamily Lycinae
Tribe Calopterini
Genus Caenia
Species dimidiata (Caenia dimidiata)
Explanation of Names
Caenia dimidiata (Fabricius 1801)
dimidiata = 'divided in half'
Size
8.5-13 mm(1)
Identification
Similar to Calopteron terminale, but has comb-like antennae, and scutellum is black (2)
Range
e NA (NS-FL to MB-OK) - Map (3)(4)(5)(6)
Season
mostly: May-Aug (7)(6)
Remarks
comes to lights(1)
See Also
Calopteron terminale - mostly: July-Sept
Lycomorpha pholus--a moth!
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
2.How to Know the Beetles
Ross H. Arnett, N. M. Downie, H. E. Jaques. 1980. Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
3.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
4.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
5.List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)
6.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
7.Insects of North Carolina
C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.
Contributed by tom murray on 25 June, 2005 - 9:55am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, Nick Block, v belov
Last updated 28 April, 2022 - 3:40am

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