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Black patent leather click beetle - Melanactes piceus
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Black patent leather click beetle - Melanactes piceus
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 19, 2006
Size: ~27mm

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 20 June, 2006 - 11:42am
Last updated 21 June, 2006 - 3:45pm

Melanactes piceus.
One of the few relatively easily recognized click beetles, due to its large size, glossy, all-black appearance and weakly striated wing covers (elytra).
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