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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Oxynopterinae » Melanactes » Melanactes densus
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Black beetle - Melanactes densus
Copyright © 2007 Peter Bryant

Black beetle - Melanactes densus
San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Orange County, California, USA
May 21, 2006
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Contributed by Peter Bryant on 10 May, 2007 - 3:05pm
Last updated 18 January, 2008 - 6:21pm

Moved
Moved from Click Beetles.
… Beatriz Moisset, 18 January, 2008 - 6:21pm login or register to post comments

Melanactes densus
These are one of the larger Elateridae in the California fauna.
… Dennis Haines, 18 January, 2008 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Melanactes densus
May I acknowledge you for this ID at our web site?
http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/coleopt/Melanactes.htm
… Peter Bryant, 18 January, 2008 - 6:55pm login or register to post comments

 
That would be fine.
That would be fine.
… Dennis Haines, 18 January, 2008 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

guess larger
. . . comparing to venation of leaf.
… Boris Büche, 11 May, 2007 - 3:04am login or register to post comments

 
Bigger
Yes, you could be right (it was taken a long time ago!)
… Peter Bryant, 11 May, 2007 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

Nice Click Beetle!
Did you get a size?
… Jim McClarin, 10 May, 2007 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Click beetle
Sorry, my primitive camera doesn't add the scale (why not? It doesn't stamp lat. and long. data either). I guess about 1cm
… Peter Bryant, 10 May, 2007 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

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