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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae) » Cantharinae » Cantharini » Rhagonycha » Common Red Soldier Beetle (Rhagonycha fulva)
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Red Soldier Beetle - Rhagonycha fulva
Copyright © 2006 Cheryl Moorehead

Red Soldier Beetle - Rhagonycha fulva
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
July 20, 2006
Size: ~7mm long
I found this beetle patrolling my cherry tree trunk. The measurement may be a little too long, but it's close.
The cherry tree has a lot of carpenter ants and slave ants, as well as wood-borers of some sort (have only seen the holes w/frass, so far).

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Contributed by Cheryl Moorehead on 13 October, 2006 - 7:41am
Last updated 22 January, 2007 - 8:04pm

Moved
Moved from False Blister Beetles.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 22 December, 2006 - 7:15am login or register to post comments

False false blister beetle!
In fact, a soldier beetle and a recent introduction from Europe: Rhagonycha fulva.

All Oedemerids resembling this one have the pronotum less flat, and are of about double size.

regards, Boris
… Boris Büche, 22 December, 2006 - 5:31am login or register to post comments

 
Cool, Thanks!
I found this species a couple of times this year...maybe I'll get better photos in 2007.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 22 December, 2006 - 7:14am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 13 October, 2006 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Rhagonycha.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 13 October, 2006 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

Don't think so.
This reminds me more of the "wharf borer," genus Nacerdes, in the family of false blister beetles (Oedemeridae). Hard to tell fore certain from this image, though.
… Eric R. Eaton, 13 October, 2006 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

 
OK,
I'll move it up to the Coleoptera page.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 13 October, 2006 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Oedemeridae
It's hard to said if it's a Nacerdes sp. or a Rhagonycha sp., but it sure is an Oedemeridae. You can move it too this family page.
… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 13 October, 2006 - 6:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I will do that. Maybe next year, I'll get to photograph another one, now that I'm getting better at it.
… Cheryl Moorehead, 13 October, 2006 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

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