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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Cardiophorinae » Cardiophorus » Cardiophorus vulneratus
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Elaterid - Cardiophorus vulneratus
Copyright © 2012 margarethe brummermann

Elaterid - Cardiophorus vulneratus
Madera Canyon lower grassland, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
July 13, 2012
Size: 6mm

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 18 July, 2012 - 6:11pm
Last updated 19 August, 2018 - 5:05pm

Moved
Moved from Cardiophorus.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 August, 2018 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

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… margarethe brummermann, 19 July, 2012 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

Cardiophorus sp.
This could be the true 'C. vulneratus' but let me snoop around some more. Typically, vulneratus has the bicolored pronotum and aptopoides and brevis have all-red pronota. However, this specimen has red on the humerus and, if I remember correctly, the 'true' vulneratus always has black elytra.

I'll need to snoop around some more.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 July, 2012 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

 
I hadn't even noticed the
red dots on the humerus. Maybe it's just a dark form of the one we got there beforew, same location and time of the year, even weather conditions
… margarethe brummermann, 19 July, 2012 - 8:59am login or register to post comments

 
more...
I've researched some more and color is variable in all three species. Without examination of the tarsal claws (and assuming the measurement is accurate), I cannot confirm the species-level ID.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 July, 2012 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

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