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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Glowworm Beetles (Phengodidae)
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Beetle Larva
Copyright © 2010 Lynette Elliott

Beetle Larva
Desert Edge, Riverside County, California, USA
January 17, 2010
I'm assuming it's a beetle larva. I got distracted by a recluse spider, so I never got better shots of this.
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 30 January, 2010 - 12:42am
Last updated 30 March, 2019 - 4:35pm

Moved tentatively...
Moved from Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles.
… Hisserdude, 30 March, 2019 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 6 February, 2010 - 9:28am login or register to post comments

I'll get it started
by "talkin' the crazy talk"... teneral/light-colored Zarhipis +/-?
… John R. Maxwell, 30 January, 2010 - 10:50am login or register to post comments

 
Hey
it certainly looks like that family?
… Lynette Elliott, 30 January, 2010 - 10:55am login or register to post comments

 
I think so
but was afraid something else in Elateroidea might look similar (or I'm just wrong). I'm just learning the immature.
… John R. Maxwell, 30 January, 2010 - 11:23am login or register to post comments

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