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Fire-Colored Beetle (Dendroides ephemeroides) - Dendroides ephemeroides

Fire-Colored Beetle (Dendroides ephemeroides) - Dendroides ephemeroides
near Salem, Polk County, Oregon, USA
November 17, 2008
Found under bark with dozens of others. They kind of look like a termite crossed with a earwig, very interesting larva.

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Dendroides ephemeroides (Mannerheim)
This is a larva of Dendroides ephemeroides (Mannerheim).

 
Thanks all
Are these predatory larvae (eating small worms, slugs, or insects)? I'm wondering about getting a larva or two and trying to raise it up to see (and photograph) a pupa & adult. I bet these guys are eaten by all kinds of birds, mammals, & probably some amphibians.

 
Although they apparently eat an occasional insect,
these larvae subsist on a primary diet of rotting cabium. They are relatively easy to rear in a sealed container full of moist bark from their preferred tree species.

It is not Pedilus (another sh
It is not Pedilus (another shape of urogomphi, etc). Check Pedilus larva here:
http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/pedsp2az.htm
I'd rather said it belongs to Dendroides

Compare to...
... Fire-colored beetle larva, Pyrochroidae, such as this one: .

 
Thanks
Yeah that looks more like the one I found. Okay, after a little searching in the family it looks similar (and has similar range) to Pedilus genus?

 
Dendroides maybe?
What stumps me is that as many of these larvae as I saw when I was in Oregon, I saw only one adult. Pedilus are small beetles, not likely to come from larvae as large as these.

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