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Long-horned beetle family?  What species? - Rhagonycha fulva

Long-horned beetle family? What species? - Rhagonycha fulva
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
July 29, 2006
Photographed in a wetland on the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle.

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Other differences
This beetle's abdomen extends beyond elytral apex, a very common cantharid trait, whereas elytra extend just beyond abdomen in Web images I found of Nacerdes melanura. The antennae are darker in this beetle than in the Nacerdes melanura Web images. The eyes on this beetle appear to me to be entire and proportionally larger whereas those of Nacerdes melanura look smaller and slightly emarginate. The head of this beetle appears to have a lower side profile than that of Nacerdes melanura. Finally, the pronotum in this beetle appears to me to have a sharp edge or margin while in Nacerdes melanura the pronotum is rounded over on the sides.

A close view of the hind tarsi would be a determinant as well since there would be five tarsomeres on a cantharid vs. four on an oedemerid.

I support Jim´s statement!
regards, Boris

Not Rhag*onycha?
I thought surely it was a member of this genus in Canth*aridae. Anyway, it's not a member of the longho*rned beetles. (aterisks used to keep this image from appearing in site searches for those names)

Oedemeridae: Nacerdes melanura
It is a bad angle (a dorsal view of the pronotum would be most helpful), but sure looks like N. melanura.

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