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Species Podabrus brevicollis

Beetle, at light - Podabrus brevicollis Podabrus brevicollis Soldier Beetle? - Podabrus brevicollis - male Soldier Beetle - Podabrus brevicollis Podabrus brevicollis ? - Podabrus brevicollis Podabrus brevicollis Cantharidae - Podabrus brevicollis Podabrus brevicollis - West Virginia - Podabrus brevicollis
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 Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)
Subfamily Cantharinae
Tribe Podabrini
Genus Podabrus
Species brevicollis (Podabrus brevicollis)
Explanation of Names
Podabrus brevicollis Fall 1928
Size
10-13 mm (1) (2) (larger than most other species in this genus)
Identification
Quoting original description (2):
Of large size and robust form for the genus.
Color piceous brown or blackish;
Head in front of a line joining the middle of the eyes pale testaceous, the anterior margin of the epistoma blackish; prothorax testaceous, disk with blackish median spot occupying about the middle half (in a transverse sense), narrowed in front, not or scarcely attaining the apex;
Elytral suture and margins narrowly pale; body beneath piceous brown, the head and thorax pale.
Antennae scarcely differing in the sexes, piceous, basal joint more or less pale beneath, second joint only just perceptibly shorter than the third. Head smooth in front, becoming abruptly coarsely densely punctate in the dark area.
Prothorax varying from slightly less than, to a little more than twice as wide as long, a little narrowed in front, sides arcuate throughout, the base angles minutely prominent, front angles rounded; blackish discal area distinctly punctate, pale margins smooth, deeply concave within the base angles. Elytra densely scabrous punctate, each with three fine discal costae, the outer one usually obsolete.
Tarsal claws all cleft or acutely toothed.
Range
Eastern North America: Ontario to North Carolina, west to Ohio (1)
Print References
Fall, H.C. (1928). A review of the North American species of Podabrus. Entomologica Americana 8: 65-103 (2).
Works Cited
1.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
2.A Review of the North American Species of Podabrus
Fall, H.C. 1927. Entomologica Americana, 8(2): pp. 65-103.