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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Pityobiinae » Pityobius » Pityobius murrayi
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Click Beetle - Pityobius murrayi
Copyright © 2007 Richard Wasson

Click Beetle - Pityobius murrayi
Santa Rosa, CA, Sonoma County California County, California, USA
July 3, 2007
Size: 3.5 cm 35mm
At lights at about 10:30 PM. In wooded area, with many different type of trees.

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Contributed by Richard Wasson on 4 July, 2007 - 9:06pm
Last updated 15 September, 2007 - 8:26pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 15 September, 2007 - 8:26pm login or register to post comments

looks like Pityobius murrayi
from the Beetles of CA (1), looks like Pityobius murrayi. There's a nice photo included, or you can see one here (but yours is better, and nice addition with the close up of the groved pronotum). Males have feathery antennae, whereas females (yours) are saw-toothed. This is the second of the 2 Pityobius species of NAmer. Nice find!

Another new species for BugGuide :) Suggest you move this to the genus page, and under the Forums section request an editor to make a new species page. See Help for more instructions, or let me know.
… Tim Moyer, 5 July, 2007 - 8:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Pityobius murrayi
Hello Tim:

Thanks again for the help. I believe I may seen that picture but rejected it because of the antenna, not knowing that I had the female and they were showing the male. Sex, it get you ever time.

Richard
… Richard Wasson, 5 July, 2007 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

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