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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Agrypninae » Hemirhipini » Alaus » Western Eyed Click Beetle (Alaus melanops)
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Western Eyed Click Beetle? - Alaus melanops
Copyright © 2006 Lynette Elliott

Western Eyed Click Beetle? - Alaus melanops
Prospect Creek, Sanders County, Montana, USA
July 5, 2006

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Western Eyed Click Beetle? - Alaus melanops Western Eyed Click Beetle? - Alaus melanops
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 16 September, 2006 - 5:00pm
Last updated 1 August, 2010 - 12:34pm

Moved
Moved from Alaus.
… Blaine Mathison, 1 August, 2010 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

not western
. . . but not because of white rings (type also has them), but the spots not clearly in anteriour half of pronotum.
… Boris Büche, 18 May, 2007 - 6:22am login or register to post comments

If by western eyed click beetle
you mean Alaus melanops, we think not, since we don't think that has white around the eye spots on the pronotum, although the one image we have in BugGuide seems to have some. But we understand that the western form of the Small-eyed Click Beetle, A. myops, is a darker creature with white around the eyespots, so we're thinking that's what you have here. Unfortunately, Nearctica lists nine species in the genus Alaus, so there are a half dozen species we know nothing about and consequently we could be completely wrong!
… john and jane balaban, 16 September, 2006 - 5:46pm login or register to post comments

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