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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Dendrometrinae » Prosternini » Prosternon
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Elateridae - Prosternon
Copyright © 2008 Libby & Rick Avis

Elateridae - Prosternon
Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
June 2, 2007
Click beetle?
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Contributed by Libby & Rick Avis on 18 January, 2008 - 1:18am
Last updated 23 January, 2008 - 4:25pm

Moved
Moved from Click Beetles.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 23 January, 2008 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

Fungus?
I wonder what the white stuff is. It looks like a fungus infection.
… Beatriz Moisset, 18 January, 2008 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

 
No.
It is reflective pubescence. I've collected this species in Oregon, but have never gotten it identified:-(.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 January, 2008 - 10:51am login or register to post comments

 
It looks like Prosternon (Ctenicera)
It looks like Prosternon (Ctenicera) fallax group when compared to specimens from the Sierra Nevada. The pubescence is quite unique.
… Dennis Haines, 18 January, 2008 - 3:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks like the one I just found

Unfortunantly there are no fallax group photos on BG to compare with
… Scott Gilmore, 7 May, 2013 - 7:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Just posted another very similar

Blaine Mathison thinks it's probably Prosternon bombycinum. They all seem to have these distinctive whorls on the elytra.
… Libby & Rick Avis, 30 January, 2014 - 5:42pm login or register to post comments

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