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Dendroides ephemeroides
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Copyright © 2008
Mark Leppin
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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Contributed by
Mark Leppin
on 23 November, 2008 - 12:44am
Last updated 25 August, 2023 - 5:17pm
Moved
Moved from
Fire-Colored Beetles
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john and jane balaban
, 18 January, 2009 - 9:24am
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Dendroides ephemeroides (Mannerheim)
This is a larva of Dendroides ephemeroides (Mannerheim).
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Dr. Daniel K. Young
, 15 January, 2009 - 3:47pm
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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.
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Mark Leppin
, 16 January, 2009 - 4:35pm
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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.
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Jim McClarin
, 18 January, 2009 - 10:14am
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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
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Artjom Zaitsev
, 29 November, 2008 - 3:53pm
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Compare to...
... Fire-colored beetle larva, Pyrochroidae, such as this one:
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Carmen Champagne
, 23 November, 2008 - 12:09pm
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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?
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Mark Leppin
, 23 November, 2008 - 12:34pm
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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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Eric R. Eaton
, 23 November, 2008 - 8:58pm
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