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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Bolitophagini » Bolitotherus » Forked Fungus Beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus)
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Beetle Larva - Bolitotherus cornutus
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Beetle Larva - Bolitotherus cornutus
Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
January 20, 2006
Size: 13mm
There were a bunch of these inside a large red mushroom on the side of a tree.

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Contributed by tom murray on 21 January, 2006 - 11:02pm
Last updated 6 April, 2006 - 8:54pm

Quite a difference between larvae.
Are you certain these are the lavae that became the B.cornutus pupa? Check out these larvae from Rattlebox.
… Jim McClarin, 12 September, 2006 - 11:57pm login or register to post comments

 
This one is correct
I read the comments under Rattlebox's picture, and the results are very interesting.
The other one that you mentioned, there could be a mixup, but I don't remember collecting a larva that looked like yours.
… tom murray, 13 September, 2006 - 10:41pm login or register to post comments

 
More likely a mixup on my end.
I know I was incredulous that such a larva could produce a tenebrionid.
… Jim McClarin, 14 September, 2006 - 5:36am login or register to post comments

Rearing
If you saved the mushroom and larvae, it might be possible to get a larva/adult photo series for the bugguide site.
… Jim McClarin, 22 January, 2006 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

 
I'll have to go back
and see if I can get the mushroom. That makes sense, wish I would have thought of it at the time.
… tom murray, 22 January, 2006 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

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