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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae) » Cantharinae » Podabrini » Podabrus » Podabrus brevicollis
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Firefly look alike - Podabrus brevicollis
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Firefly look alike - Podabrus brevicollis
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
June 17, 2005
Size: 12mm
This looks a lot like Rhaxonycha carolinus, except for the yellow face, and I don't see the orange abdomen under the edge of the elytra. Any opinions?
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Contributed by tom murray on 20 June, 2005 - 7:02am
Last updated 26 May, 2009 - 3:44am

Podabrus brevicollis Fall
Moved from Podabrus.
… v belov, 26 May, 2009 - 3:44am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Rhaxonycha carolinus.
P. modestus looks intriguing. It even looks like it has a white face, and a light outer margin on the elytra.
… tom murray, 13 April, 2008 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

It looks like Rhaxonycha.
The difference in the abdomen may just be a sexual difference, see the mating pair, image #3551. Perhaps this one is a male.
I don't know what to think about the different color of the face.
… Beatriz Moisset, 25 June, 2005 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
moved
Looks close enough for me. Maybe we just aren't getting a good look at the face on the others.
… tom murray, 25 June, 2005 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Re-thinking these Cantharids...
Well, there was a lengthy discussion about these cantharids some time ago here, and the conclusion was that this one was probably not a Rhaxonycha, but perhaps a Podabrus. I had another one like that as well, initially thought to be a Rhaxonycha, but Boris Buche argued, quite correctly, is not:

Looking through my NC checklist, I do see an interesting one Podabrus modestus--we don't have any ID'd here, but look at Insects of Cedar Creek, esp:


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I just found another one in my yard--that is why I'm revisiting these.
… Cotinis, 13 April, 2008 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

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