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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Glowworm Beetles (Phengodidae) » Phengodini » Glowworms (Phengodes)
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ID Request - Phengodes - male
Copyright © 2008 Ron Votaw

ID Request - Phengodes - Male
8 mi. SW of Wimberley, Comal County, Texas, USA
May 30, 2008
Size: 19mm head to ab tip
I've no idea what this is, but it does have a pair.
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Contributed by Ron Votaw on 31 May, 2008 - 1:30am
Last updated 17 August, 2008 - 2:08pm

Not Brachy*psectra - Texas Beetles :-)
Phengodidae = Glowworm Beetles
… Jim McClarin, 17 August, 2008 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

Phengodes sp.
See: Phengodes - Texas Beetles
… Mike Quinn, 17 August, 2008 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

It's a male.
You could do an edit of your post and click the appropriate sex toward the bottom of the submission form. Oops, too late! I'll do it for you :-)

The males are easy to spot due to the fact that the female adults are totally wingless and larviform, looking much like the larvae they once were except for their complex eyes and mature-but-small antennae. The larval and female forms are called Glow Worms due to their bi-colored bioluminescence.
… Jim McClarin, 31 May, 2008 - 3:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks,
Jim, etal.
… Ron Votaw, 31 May, 2008 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

Your suggestion
Is a very good one!!
I agree,
Greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 31 May, 2008 - 5:42am login or register to post comments

Surprise
It's a beetle, something like family Riphiphoridae!
greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 31 May, 2008 - 4:52am login or register to post comments

 
Phengodidae would be my sugge
Phengodidae would be my suggestion.
… Skip Blanchard, 31 May, 2008 - 5:33am login or register to post comments

 
I agree with Slip, this is a
I agree with Skip, this is a Phengodid.
… Gordon C. Snelling, 31 May, 2008 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

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