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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Cebrioninae » Aplastini » Octinodes » Octinodes megalops
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- - Octinodes megalops - male
Copyright © 2015 Robyn Waayers

- - Octinodes megalops - Male
San Felipe Creek, Anza Borrego Desert, San Diego County, California, USA
June 9, 2014
Size: 20 mm
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Contributed by Robyn Waayers on 28 February, 2015 - 10:10am
Last updated 5 March, 2016 - 5:09pm

Moved, O. megalops
Looks conspecific with the MCZ type.

Moved from Octinodes.
… Blaine Mathison, 5 March, 2016 - 5:09pm login or register to post comments

Possible O. megalops Fall
this keys to O. megalops in Van Dyke (1932) but I'd prefer not to make that ID sound without comparative material. Unfortunately, the MCZ site is down now, so I cannot compare images of the holotype.

Octinodes megalops was described from Claremont, CA in Los Angeles County, so its presence in San Diego, Co. should not be a surprise. Still there are other described (and certainly undescribed) species from southern CA.
… Blaine Mathison, 28 February, 2015 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the help so far, Blaine...
...if it were O. megalops, I see it would be new to the guide. Now that I know the trick, I will watch out more closely for this genus!
… Robyn Waayers, 28 February, 2015 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
This is Octinodes (notice the 11-semented antennae; Euthysanius spp. have 12-segmented antennae).

I'll try to get a species name later...

Moved from Arboreal Click Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 28 February, 2015 - 11:18am login or register to post comments

 
Ah - I did not know that trick!
I will look at some other specimens I have from Utah with that in mind, then.
Thanks.
… Robyn Waayers, 28 February, 2015 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

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