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Fiery Hunter (Calosoma calidum)?? - Calosoma calidum

Fiery Hunter (Calosoma calidum)?? - Calosoma calidum
Espanola, Algoma District, Ontario, Canada
June 21, 2007
Size: 1in
I know you said you dont want pictures of dead specimens, but I did not kill these 2 guys on purpose. To my everlasting shame, they wandered into my doggy pooper scooper and I assume could not escape from the smooth plastic bucket. I really felt bad when I found them but there was nothing I could do, they were already dead. In any case they are almost perfectly preserved and not squashed at all. Their beauty led me to take photographs and attempt to identify them. It has been suggested that they are Calosoma calidum (Fiery hunters) I noticed you did not have any photographs of this species on your guide and even though they are dead they are still beautiful, and as a memorial I thought it would be nice to share their images on here so that their accidental death would not be entirely in vain... In these pics I took you cant see it but in low light the spots look a lovely metallic orange, and when you turn them they switch from orange to green. They were found in my yard which is basically a dry, grassy field with sandy soil and wildflowers.

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Fiery Hunter (Calosoma calidum)?? - Calosoma calidum Fiery Hunter (Calosoma calidum)?? - Calosoma calidum Fiery Hunter (Calosoma calidum)?? - Calosoma calidum

Calosoma calidum
The very prominent bright golden elytral spots favor Calosoma calidum. Spots are smaller and shift to other shades in related Calosoma frigidum. Incidentally, some current taxonomists - European mostly - move C. calidum to Callisthenes calidus.

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Can anyone verify if these are indeed Calosoma calidum? or are they som other species. They were found in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.

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What would be the best way to preserve them? I have them in a jar right now but I would like to keep them nicely preserved I feel so bad that they died in my pooper scooper :( But they are so pretty I want to keep them.

 
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I wouldn't feel too bad about photographing a dead specimen. There are alot of pinned specimens (I'm guilty too) in the guide. It is often best to have a dead specimen then nothing at all. Hopefully we can represent them in the future with living bugs.
Beetles usually keep their color well after death and should look good pinned or in some sort of mount (dry).

 
Thanks.
I wasnt sure if it would be OK to post them I noticed the instructions asked not to submit photos of dead specimens.. but I wanted to get a second opinion on the identification before posting them under Fiery Hunter.. so if anyone can confirm that they are Calosoma calidum, or tell me what they actually are I would be very pleased to have their photos where they belong in the guide. Hopefully they are Fiery hunters since there is no photos of them yet on bugguide.

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