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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Megapenthes » Megapenthes stigmosus

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click beetle - Megapenthes stigmosus -

Dixville, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
July 22, 2014

Taken with a beating sheet from an elderberry bush.

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click beetle - Megapenthes stigmosus - female

click beetle - Megapenthes stigmosus - female

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Contributed by tom murray on 22 July, 2014 - 8:34pm
Last updated 23 July, 2014 - 9:44am

Moved, this is the female

Moved from Megapenthes.

… Blaine Mathison, 23 July, 2014 - 9:39am

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ha! Tom did it again...

thought of it; the ID makes sense, just stunned by the fact that nobody has posted it till now from anywhere outside PNW
must be quite uncommon... or strictly conifer-associated?

… v belov, 23 July, 2014 - 9:44am

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Neat

I just found about 20 of these guys yesterday all on Queen Anne's Lace (but I am in the PNW!) According to this website they are found "Predominantly poplar forests and parklands ... usually collected on the dense undergrowth".

… Scott Gilmore, 23 July, 2014 - 9:57am

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BTW

I just went to the website you linked. The species shown on that page is Megapenthes rogersi, not stigmosus!!!!

… Blaine Mathison, 23 July, 2014 - 3:02pm

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I just noticed that when I wa

I just noticed that when I was scanning other members of the genus on BG and was drawn to this incredible image.

… Scott Gilmore, 23 July, 2014 - 3:52pm

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poplars, eh? interesting

thanks, Scott
based on BG material, i suspect this might be one of a very few members of this genus that do frequent flowers, but this only adds to perplexity: whatever visits flowers is usually over-photographed or is not in short supply on BG anyway

… v belov, 23 July, 2014 - 10:31am

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various comments

This species is transcontinental in the north. I do not know its precise published range (D&A might be the most recent) but I will be adding it to my treatise on the SE clickers...

In the PNW you also have M. caprella which looks a lot like M. stigmosus. You really need to look at the punctures on the hypomeron to reliably separate them in the northwest.

… Blaine Mathison, 23 July, 2014 - 11:02am

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Moved tentatively. WOW.

Moved from Click Beetles.

… v belov, 22 July, 2014 - 8:38pm

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