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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Cardiophorinae » Paracardiophorus » Paracardiophorus propinquus
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Sand click beetle - Paracardiophorus propinquus
Copyright © 2015 Steve McKechnie

Sand click beetle - Paracardiophorus propinquus
White Fox, Torch River, Saskatchewan, Canada
August 2, 2015
Estimate 6 or 7 mm long.
This beetle was travelling across the packed, flat sand between sand banks.
Put my finger in front of it, and it tried to go under.
Rolled it onto its back and it clicked, landing upright two inches away.

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Sand click beetle - Paracardiophorus propinquus Sand click beetle - Paracardiophorus propinquus
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Contributed by Steve McKechnie on 3 August, 2015 - 10:41pm
Last updated 30 October, 2018 - 5:46am

Moved tentatively
Moved from Paracardiophorus.
… Blaine Mathison, 30 October, 2018 - 5:46am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cardiophorus.
… Blaine Mathison, 13 February, 2017 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

Moved, that may not be it!
Several northern Caridio, esp west of the Great Lakes, have a pattern like this. I would be cautious to move it to the species level based on this color alone.

Moved from Cardiophorus cardisce.
… Blaine Mathison, 4 August, 2015 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

 
OK
You know best
… Steve McKechnie, 4 August, 2015 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cardiophorus.
… Steve McKechnie, 4 August, 2015 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

reminds me of the widespread C. cardisce, recorded in SK, too
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 3 August, 2015 - 10:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank's v
That is it.
… Steve McKechnie, 4 August, 2015 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

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