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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Agrypninae » Agrypnini » Lacon » Lacon mexicanus
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Click Beetle - Lacon mexicanus
Copyright © 2010 Graham Montgomery

Click Beetle - Lacon mexicanus
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
July 25, 2010
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Contributed by Graham Montgomery on 28 July, 2010 - 6:58pm
Last updated 19 November, 2012 - 11:21am

Moved
Shoulda looked more closelyon BG first; Mike Quinn has images from TX :)

Moved from Lacon.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 November, 2012 - 11:21am login or register to post comments

Lacon...
I keep coming back to this images, and it sure looks like Lacon mexicanus. L. mexicanus is known from the SE (FL and adjacent areas) and AZ (Arnett, 1952). I am not sure of its presence in TX though, but it makes sense it would be there.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 November, 2012 - 11:21am login or register to post comments

cool.
Moved from Click Beetles.
… v belov, 28 July, 2010 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

Beautiful
looks like a Lacon sp., but not familiar with TX's fauna.
… Blaine Mathison, 28 July, 2010 - 7:37pm login or register to post comments

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