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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Dendrometrinae » Prosternini » Anthracopteryx » Anthracopteryx hiemalis
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Winter click beetle - Anthracopteryx hiemalis
Copyright © 2017 Eric R. Eaton

Winter click beetle - Anthracopteryx hiemalis
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
January 28, 2017
Size: ~6-7 mm
Identified by elaterid expert Paul J. Johnson via a Facebook group, with these comments: "Super-nice find! This is a native winter-active species in a monobasic genus. It is endemic from Laramie south to Westcliffe in the Front Ranges." Found on the sidewalk in my neighborhood on a sunny, relatively warm day. Adjacent "habitat" was a vacant lot that passes for degraded shortgrass prairie.

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Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 28 January, 2017 - 9:06pm

WOW
thanks for the treat, Eric!
… v belov, 19 February, 2017 - 10:50pm login or register to post comments

 
I just got a series from here in Utah
courtesy of Gareth Powell!
… Blaine Mathison, 7 May, 2018 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

Cool Beetle, I just saw your
Cool Beetle, I just saw your blog post about it, neat story!
… I Fox, 30 January, 2017 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

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