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Beetle Nymph ? - Euthysanius - female

Beetle Nymph ? - Euthysanius - Female
Skull Valley, (WSW of Prescott 10 miles), Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
June 9, 2008
Dug up from under raspberry plants.

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NICE FIND!
Beetles don't have nymphs; anything with eyes, wings (however reduced), and mutiple tarsomeres is an adult.
i've never seen this beetle but it looks like a gravid brachypterous click beetle female
PLEASE POST ADD'L CLOSEUPS OF HEAD AND PRONOTUM -- i'm dying to see more of it

 
elaterid alright
thanks for add'l pix

 
Right on!
Genus is Euthysanius. We have nice images of males in the guide already. Great find!

 
Robert and Eric --
thank you so much, Gentlemen, for finding, photographing, posting, and deciphering this fine beast

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