Red Beetle - Matheteus theveneti

I missed this one.

Congratulations on adding a new beetle family to bugguide. We have 24 to go now on our Beetle Family Wish List. I'll mark this one off, with attribution to you. If you want me to use your real name, just let me know. Otherwise it will be just your Web handle.

… Jim McClarin, 3 June, 2007 - 10:02am

matheteus thevenetei

Thanks to everyone, and bravo! on the ID of my garden visitor.

… clearcreek, 16 May, 2007 - 4:35pm

Moved

Moved from Matheteus thevenetei.

… Boris Büche, 16 May, 2007 - 4:12am

Great find.

Thanks to clearcreek´s attentive eyes, and to Jeff´s knowledge, a FAMILY now is represented in bugguide!

I´ll put it on a species page immediately, because the specimen agrees also to the type specimen, and it can´t be another Omethid, comparing subfamily diagnosis in intkey.

… Boris Büche, 16 May, 2007 - 4:02am

Omethidae

This looks like an omethid. See image of Matheteus thevenetei LeConte at bottom of http://delta-intkey.com/elateria/www/ometm.htm

… Jeff Gruber, 15 May, 2007 - 12:53pm

better color

great reference site, but I like the color in this image much better :)

… Tim Moyer, 15 May, 2007 - 1:56pm

funny one!

I guess this will turn out to be a Lycid mimic, but from which family?
I think it can be told that it is not a Lycid, because of the rather short antennae, and the "normal" legs (Lycids generally have flattened tibiae, widest in middle).
Another possibility to consider would be: Mely*ridae.

… Boris Büche, 14 May, 2007 - 4:26am

I'd think something in Lycida

I'd think something in Lycidae, certainly something cantharoid.

… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 12 May, 2007 - 10:10pm

Lampyrid?

from the rounded pronotum I would think this something in Lampyridae. There is nothing this red in the guide sofar though and in Lycidae there is Dictyopterus which is all red. I think this is something different though.

… Rob Westerduijn, 13 May, 2007 - 9:01am