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Photo#128383
Copyright © 2007
Ray Simpson
Cantharid -
Malthodes
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Dixie Plantation, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
July 15, 2007
Very similar to the other short-winged cantharid I posted but the coloration of the head is different.
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Contributed by
Ray Simpson
on 18 July, 2007 - 3:12pm
Last updated 20 July, 2007 - 12:59pm
you still have it?
if so, please post some shots of the terminal segments of abdomen (ventrally and laterally) - they may later allow for species ID!
This one and
are in my eyes similar enough to represent male and female of one species.
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Boris Büche
, 19 July, 2007 - 2:08am
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interesting
I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same species. Don't the males have these projections on their antennal segments? The specimens are dried now and pinned but I'll see what I can do.
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Ray Simpson
, 20 July, 2007 - 12:57pm
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sexual differences
In Malthodes sp., males have the head wider, the eyes bigger, the antennae longer than females, and the last abdominal segments strongly modified.
I haven´t seen yet a male with such projections.
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Boris Büche
, 21 July, 2007 - 5:01am
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Tytthonyx?
American Beetles
key says antennae of
Malthodes
are filiform to subserrate, antennae of
Tytthonyx
serrate, flabellate, or pectinate
(
1
)
. These look a little pectinate to me, so could this be
Tytthonyx
? (How does one tell subserrate from pectinate?)
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Cotinis
, 24 July, 2010 - 1:08pm
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