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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Scirtoidea » Plate-thigh Beetles (Eucinetidae) » Nycteus » Nycteus testaceus
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Guess which beetle family - Nycteus testaceus
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

Guess which beetle family - Nycteus testaceus
Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
October 13, 2007
Size: about 4.5 mm
Found seven or eight of these larvae on the underside of a rather ripe gilled mushroom on a cool day in a wet area. They have a "sticky foot" on their posterior that they use a lot. I placed them on a piece of the mushroom on a damp paper towel atop of 8-10mm of soil for them to pupate in.

You'll see a springtail or two in these images of various individuals in the group.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 14 October, 2007 - 7:33am
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 8:54am

i refer to the adult but prefer to comment here:
a good one -- new to the guide, too; fits snugly the type specimen in the MCZ db; thanks, Jim! your contribs are direly missed!!!

Moved from Plate-thigh Beetles.
… v belov, 6 December, 2009 - 11:57am login or register to post comments

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