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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Glowworm Beetles (Phengodidae) » Phengodini » Glowworms (Phengodes) » Phengodes plumosa
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Unknown Insect with Antler Like Plumes - Phengodes plumosa - male
Copyright © 2009 Craig Rotermund

Unknown Insect with Antler Like Plumes - Phengodes plumosa - Male
Crescent, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
June 5, 2009
Size: 1 inch (approximately)
This insect was captured during Bioblitz 2009 at Hitchcock Nature Center. He unfortunately died while trying to id him so the shots are actually of a dead insect.

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Unknown Insect with Antler Like Plumes - Phengodes plumosa - male Unknown Insect with Antler Like Plumes - Phengodes plumosa - male
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Contributed by crotermund on 6 June, 2009 - 10:52pm
Last updated 14 January, 2015 - 8:42am

Moved tentatively
Moved from Glowworms.
… v belov, 14 January, 2015 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

Another possibility would be Phengodes - Glowworms
in the guide here
… john and jane balaban, 7 June, 2009 - 8:02am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you everyone.
This one was extremely puzzling at first. I initially saw it in flight & it looked like some sort of clearwing moth, but clearly the antler like, plume antenna didn't fit. I appreciate the id.
… crotermund, 9 June, 2009 - 9:37pm login or register to post comments

 
just moved it there...
:-]
… v belov, 7 June, 2009 - 8:03am login or register to post comments

It's a Beetle
I believe this is something in the Family Ripiphoridae, some of which have the shell-like forewings called elytra reduced to little "shoulder pads":

Wait for confirmation, though
… Chuck Entz, 7 June, 2009 - 12:08am login or register to post comments

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