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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Net-winged Beetles (Lycidae) » Calopteron » End Band Net-wing (Calopteron terminale)

Species Calopteron terminale - End Band Net-wing

Classification · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)
Family Lycidae (Net-winged Beetles)
Genus Calopteron
Species terminale (End Band Net-wing)
Size
11-17 mm
Identification
A Calopteron with dark ends to wings. Compare the mimicing moth, Lycomorpha.
Range
Includes eastern North America
Habitat
Woodlands, esp. deciduous forests.
Season
Late summer-fall. August-October (North Carolina), August-September (Minnesota)
Food
Adults feed on decomposing vegetable matter (juices).
Life Cycle
Eggs are deposited on dead or dying trees. Larvae are predatory on small insects, mites, under bark.
See Also
Caenia dimidiata
Print References
Dillon, p. 239 plate XXV (1)
Borror and White plate 5 (2)
Papp, p. 85, fig. 267 (3)
Salsbury, p. 197--photo (4)
Brimley, p. 153 (5)
Internet References
Oklahoma Wild Things
Insects of Cedar Creek
Bioclic--Canada
Works Cited
1.A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America
By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence
2.A Field Guide to Insects
By Richard E. White, Donald J. Borror, Roger Tory Peterson
3.Introduction to North American Beetles
By Charles S. Papp
4.Insects in Kansas
By Glenn A. Salsbury and Stephan C. White
5.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
Contributed by Cotinis on 24 October, 2004 - 12:11pm
Last updated 18 June, 2006 - 10:02am

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