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Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)
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Copyright © 2007
john and jane balaban
Beetle larva -
Cucujus clavipes
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 22, 2006
Size: ~15mm
Nearby was this guy. Didn't check to see if the darker one was an empty exoskeleton or not.
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Contributed by
john and jane balaban
on 15 January, 2007 - 4:46pm
Last updated 16 January, 2007 - 8:42pm
Yes, Cucujus.
I should have told you what it was that shed its skin :-) The urogomphi or tail spines are in the Cucujus configuration. See flat larva urogomphi compared
here
,
here
, and
here
.
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Jim McClarin
, 16 January, 2007 - 3:43pm
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Pyrochroid?
Cucujus is one possibility, that family another. Pyrochroid larvae are similar, and also found below bark.
regards, Boris
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Boris Büche
, 16 January, 2007 - 9:43am
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Looks like the Red Flat Bark
Looks like the Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)
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Matthew Ireland
, 16 January, 2007 - 6:58am
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Yes,
I think it's a shed skin.
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Jim McClarin
, 15 January, 2007 - 6:53pm
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