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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Glowworm Beetles (Phengodidae) » Phengodini » Glowworms (Phengodes) » Phengodes laticollis
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Phengodidae Glowworm female - Phengodes laticollis - female
Copyright © 2011 © Wil Hershberger

Phengodidae Glowworm female - Phengodes laticollis - Female
Hedgesville, Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA
February 20, 2011

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Contributed by Wil Hershberger on 20 February, 2011 - 3:03pm
Last updated 26 May, 2015 - 4:57pm

Moved
Moved from Phengodes nigromaculata.
… v belov, 26 May, 2015 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Glowworms.
… v belov, 3 March, 2013 - 7:21am login or register to post comments

 
Phengodes laticollis larva
I would bet according to published accounts stretching back 100 years this is instead a P. laticollis larva especially given its location.
P. nigromaculata are a Florida, Deep south species, similar dots that peter out (I think) but smaller. The P. nigromaculata name comes from the dark mark on the males' pronotum, NOT the spotted larvae. We should add a P. laticollis section for these Phengodes because P. laticollis is very widespread and encountered more frequently, along with P. plumosa,in the east, especially outside of Florida. Remember ideally we have associations with males to ID to any species in Phengodes, and even then it is easy to be wrong, so little is known. I have encountered all the forms of P. laticollis many times associated with one another and feel pretty secure in this ID.
… LFaust, 18 November, 2014 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

this is the larva of Phengode
this is the larva of Phengodes nigromaculata
… joeCicero, 3 March, 2013 - 12:24am login or register to post comments

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