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Firefly -- Lucidota Species? - Lucidota atra
Copyright © 2012 Monica Miller

Firefly -- Lucidota Species? - Lucidota atra
Buzzard Swamp, Forest County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 11, 2011
Just working my way through "firefly beetles" and haven't yet found a match on BugGuide. Possibly I missed it, but it seems to me like Lucidota?
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Contributed by Monica Miller on 8 January, 2012 - 7:55pm
Last updated 9 January, 2012 - 9:41am

Moved Tentatively
Moved from ID Request.

Appears to be a melanistic form of L. atra. Nice image.
… Blaine Mathison, 9 January, 2012 - 9:41am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Blaine
I'd initially thought perhaps atra but the thorax colors were off. I didn't know that beetles, like butterflies, can have melanistic forms as well. Thanks!
… Monica Miller, 9 January, 2012 - 8:01pm login or register to post comments

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