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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Marsh Beetles (Scirtidae) » Elodes
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Scirtidae: Elodes Larva - Elodes
Copyright © 2007 Joe, Entomologist (in training)

Scirtidae: Elodes Larva - Elodes
Ames, Story County, Iowa, USA
March 31, 2007
Size: 7 mm
one.... two.... three.... three ocelli

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Contributed by Joe, Entomologist (in training) on 1 April, 2007 - 9:23pm
Last updated 10 April, 2007 - 5:20am

Cool, stemmata vs. ocelli
Excellent. I was just reading up on simple eyes and am confused--some larval insects have simple eyes called stemmata (1), which are not, technically, ocelli, though they are frequently called such. (Borror et al. (2) define stemmata as "lateral ocelli of insect larvae", aha!)

So good, I can use this for both "ocelli" and "stemmata" glossary entries.
… Cotinis, 20 May, 2007 - 6:31am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Marsh Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 10 April, 2007 - 5:20am login or register to post comments

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