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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) » Net-winged Beetles (Lycidae) » Lycinae » Calopterini » Caenia » Caenia dimidiata

Species Caenia dimidiata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Net-winged Beetle - Caenia dimidiata - male

Terminal Net-winged Beetle - Caenia dimidiata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Elateroidea (Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles)

Family Lycidae (Net-winged Beetles)

Subfamily Lycinae

Tribe Calopterini

Genus Caenia

Species dimidiata (Caenia dimidiata)

Explanation of Names

Caenia dimidiata (Fabricius 1801)

dimidiata = 'divided in half'

Size

8.5-13 mm(1)

Identification

Similar to Calopteron terminale, but has comb-like antennae, and scutellum is black (2)

Range

e NA (NS-FL to MB-OK) - Map (3)(4)(5)(6)

Season

mostly: May-Aug (7)(6)

Remarks

comes to lights(1)

See Also

Calopteron terminale - mostly: July-Sept

Lycomorpha pholus--a moth!

Works Cited

1.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

2.	How to Know the Beetles Ross H. Arnett, N. M. Downie, H. E. Jaques. 1980. Wm. C. Brown Publishers.

3.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

4.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

5.	List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)

6.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

7.	Insects of North Carolina C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

Contributed by tom murray on 25 June, 2005 - 9:55am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, Nick Block, v belov
Last updated 28 April, 2022 - 3:40am

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