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Stag Beetle Larva--detail of stridulatory apparatus - Lucanus

Stag Beetle Larva--detail of stridulatory apparatus - Lucanus
Parkwood, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
April 16, 2005
Size: 55 mm
View of middle leg from behind. Referring to stridulation in stag beetle larvae, I guess the dark line must be the "pars stridens on the coxae on the middle legs."

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