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Dicrepidius cf. ramicornis - Dicrepidius palmatus

Dicrepidius cf. ramicornis - Dicrepidius palmatus
Douglasville, Paulding County, Georgia, USA
June 15, 2008
Size: Approx. 18-20mm
My thinking is that this is a male specimen in Elateridae. I was pondering that it might be something in the Ctenicera or Euthysanius genus, but I'm honestly not sure. I appreciate any help or suggestions. (Sorry about the photo quality)

Moved
Moved from Dicrepidius.

Dicrepidius palmatus
[dont think ramicornis is truly in GA; a lot of the earlier records for ramincornis in the U.S. pertian to palmatus].

a suspicion
smtg tells me it's a Dicrepidius. D. ramicornis & D. palmatus are both recorded in GA [and i like the names]
Ah! here he is: http://insectdatabases.oeb.harvard.edu/caribbean/Mantisweb/FMPro?-DB=Image.DRD&-Lay=web&-Format=images_DR.htm&Species_ID==390905&-Find

 
If you want to create active hypertext links,
You have to surround them with a little bit of code. Write it like this
[url]http://insectdatabases.oeb.harvard.edu/caribbean/Mantisweb/FMPro?-DB=Image.DRD&-Lay=web&-Format=images_DR.htm&Species_ID==390905&-Find[/url]

and this is what you get

http://insectdatabases.oeb.harvard.edu/caribbean/Mantisweb/FMPro?-DB=Image.DRD&-Lay=web&-Format=images_DR.htm&Species_ID==390905&-Find

In case you're wondering how I was able to show you the code without it taking effect and becoming invisible, I wrote the code in code :-)

 
thnx -- i know
and i do that routinely, but this time the link didn't work :-[ , i checked, so i edited the comment to show it in spelled out format

 
Thank you
Many thanks for your work and guidance on this one. Dicrepidius certainly appears correct, and in the absence of any palmatus images, ramicornis looks quite accurate.

I really appreciate your help. I was hitting a dead end.

Thanks. :-)

 
pleasure is all mine
i really had fun researching. it was in part linguistics -- i was sure i'll find some 'pectinicornis' guy in the Fl list. post more pics on the guide! suerte

As people work on this one,
you might also try to figure out

 
Yeah
That definitely looks like mine. I would imagine they're likely at least the same genus.

Very cool!
The photo is good quality.

 
Thanks
It didn't turn out as good as I hoped and I had to brighten it just a tad. Focus could've been better.

But thank you for the compliment. It's good to know it doesn't look as bad as I thought. :)

I guess I'm my own worst critic.

male click beetle, sure
but, on genus level, i'm sure it's neither of the two. i'll try to find out more, no idea yet other than it's an elaterine
nice find. and the pic is good, too.

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