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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Licinini » Dicaelina » Notched-mouth Ground Beetles (Dicaelus) » unidentified larvae (Dicaelus unidentified larvae)
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500893 beetle larva Carabid? - Dicaelus
Copyright © 2005 Rob Curtis

500893 beetle larva Carabid? - Dicaelus
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
August 21, 2004
Size: ~1"
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Contributed by Rob Curtis on 24 August, 2005 - 1:09pm
Last updated 8 July, 2022 - 11:44pm

Moved
Moved from Notched-mouth Ground Beetles.
… Curt Harden, 8 July, 2022 - 11:44pm login or register to post comments

Chu no help
H.F. Chu's How to Know the Immature Insects contains drawings of beetle larvae for many families, but none resembles this one. The head reminds me of a lampyrid larva.
… Jim McClarin, 24 August, 2005 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

Not carabid.
Here's what a carabid larva looks like:
… Jim McClarin, 24 August, 2005 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

 
5000893 Carabid
I am not sure that if it doesn't look like the one you have, that it can't be one also. As the family has probably thousands of diverse species in several subfamilies in NA, as different in form as Scarites, Agonum, Galerita, Scaphinotus, etc, I would think that the larvae might be diverse also. Other than that it doesn't resemble the one you depicted are there characters that rule it out?
… Rob Curtis, 24 August, 2005 - 5:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Well said!
Yes, carabids are very diverse both as adults and larvae. I suspect this is either a carabid or staphylinid larva.
… Eric R. Eaton, 25 August, 2005 - 1:40pm login or register to post comments

 
This has been confirmed as a
This has been confirmed as a Carabid, and I may be able to get genus.
… Rob Curtis, 25 August, 2005 - 3:42pm login or register to post comments

 
Good
I hope to learn something here.
… Jim McClarin, 25 August, 2005 - 6:02pm login or register to post comments

 
This matches Dicaelus in the
This matches Dicaelus in the tribe Licinini of Carabidae.
… Rob Curtis, 26 August, 2005 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

 
Reference?
Great to know! Could you state an online or printed reference?
… Jim McClarin, 27 August, 2005 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

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