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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Fireflies (Lampyridae) » Lampyrinae » Lucidotini » Lucidota » Black Firefly (Lucidota atra)
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Dark Fellow - Lucidota atra
Copyright © 2011 Stephen_WV

Dark Fellow - Lucidota atra
Near Ruraldale, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
June 15, 2011
Anyone recognize this dark Lampyrid?
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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 10 August, 2011 - 6:12am
Last updated 10 August, 2011 - 11:06am

Agreed.
An unusually melanistic Lucidota atra. Moved from Fireflies.
… Stephen Luk, 10 August, 2011 - 11:06am login or register to post comments

 
perfect. thanks, folks.
… v belov, 10 August, 2011 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks, all. I have half a memory there were a number of these dark ones around; I'll have to keep an eye out next year in mid-June.
… Stephen_WV, 10 August, 2011 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

melanic would be my guess too
melanic would be my guess too, it does have the large, flat antennae and shallowly convex anterior pronotal corners of Lucidota, do L. atra or punctata
… joeCicero, 10 August, 2011 - 10:51am login or register to post comments

i wonder if this could be a mealnic Lucidota atra
interesting
… v belov, 10 August, 2011 - 7:01am login or register to post comments

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