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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae) » Cantharinae » Podabrini » Dichelotarsus » Dichelotarsus laevicollis
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Black cantharid - Dichelotarsus laevicollis
Copyright © 2011 Charley Eiseman

Black cantharid - Dichelotarsus laevicollis
Mt. Greylock summit, Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 10, 2011
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Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 12 June, 2011 - 5:15pm
Last updated 8 February, 2013 - 10:03pm

Moved
Moved from Dichelotarsus puberulus.
… v belov, 8 February, 2013 - 10:00pm login or register to post comments

Another opinion
I just gave Georges Pelletier permission to use this photo in a virtual key to the Cantharidae of Northeastern America in the online journal CJAI (Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification) -- but he says it is Dichelotarsus laevicollis -- so a difference in opinion taxonomically as well as with the specific ID.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 January, 2013 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Malthacus.
… v belov, 24 July, 2011 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

Podabrus puberulus LeConte
This is Podabrus puberulus LeConte, a very common and characteristic species in the northeast. Note the all black colouration and the narrow, shiny glabrous pronotum with the pale apical corners. These rufous apical corners can vary from covering almost all of the apical angle in the explanate portion of the elytra, to being only a very small spot at the extreme apex. It looks rather similar in overall appearance to Podabrus laevicollis (Kirby), however, in P. laevicollis the pronotum is entirely a dark testaceous to piceous, never showing the pale apical front angle of the pronotum chacateristic of P. puberulus..
… Christopher Majka, 23 July, 2011 - 11:39pm login or register to post comments

 
ha! feeling vindicated...
thanks a ton, Kristof.
… v belov, 24 July, 2011 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

i give up :(
i've managed to rule out every single ne. sp. treated in D&A & UNH DB, the 'least ineligible' one being puberulus LeC.
… v belov, 13 June, 2011 - 3:37am login or register to post comments

 
Hmm...
Are there any dorsal/lateral details that would help? Should this still stay in Malthacus? Thanks for all the effort.
… Charley Eiseman, 13 June, 2011 - 7:07am login or register to post comments

cool; those goth jobs seem uncommon in the east
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 12 June, 2011 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

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