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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae) » Cantharinae » Cantharini » Cantharis » Cantharis transmarina » Cantharis transmarina scopa
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Cantharid - Cantharis transmarina
Copyright © 2009 Tim Loh

Cantharid - Cantharis transmarina
Bow River, Alberta, Canada
June 1, 2009
Size: 10 mm
Sweepnetted from wetland sedges.

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Contributed by Tim Loh on 17 June, 2009 - 3:10am
Last updated 16 December, 2011 - 6:10pm

Cantharis transmarina scopa (LeConte)
the pics do need a makeover :)
… Tim Loh, 5 November, 2011 - 2:32am login or register to post comments

 
cool. do you mean, TRUE Cantharis, as currently defined?
… v belov, 5 November, 2011 - 8:17am login or register to post comments

 
Yes
Fender (1962) divided Cantharis into 4 subgenera including 3 that are now elevated to genus (Rhagonycha, Cyrtomoptera, and Cultellunguis). This one is under Cantharis s. str.
… Tim Loh, 5 November, 2011 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
… v belov, 5 November, 2011 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

now i suspect this one to be a female Silinae
could you pls try to key it out on(1)?
… v belov, 27 March, 2011 - 11:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Soldier Beetles.
… v belov, 2 August, 2009 - 9:25pm login or register to post comments

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