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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Melanotini » Melanotus » Melanotus indistinctus
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Click Beetle - Melanotus indistinctus
Copyright © 2011 J. Ott

Click Beetle - Melanotus indistinctus
Pearl River County, Mississippi, USA
January 9, 2011
Size: 12.5mm
Found under pine bark,looks like a Melanotus,does coloration "reddish vs. brown"
have any bearing on species id within the Melanotus genus?Id appreciated.

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Contributed by J. Ott on 10 January, 2011 - 11:49am
Last updated 7 December, 2018 - 11:37am

Moved, based on: https://bugguide.net/node/view/521629/bgimage
Moved from Melanotus communis Complex.
… Blaine Mathison, 7 December, 2018 - 11:37am login or register to post comments

Moved, it's a female; let's move back a step...
Moved from Melanotus communis.
… Blaine Mathison, 7 December, 2018 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Melanotus communis Complex.

Identified with receipt of voucher specimen.
… Blaine Mathison, 15 January, 2011 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Click Beetles.

This is as far as I can take it without specimen in-hand, but looking at pronotal punctation, I am tentatively leaning towards M. communis (proper).
… Blaine Mathison, 10 January, 2011 - 1:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Blaine,will try and find a few more to send
along with this one,I can see now that when it warms up some I got
to try other locations,methods if I intend to add new species.
… J. Ott, 10 January, 2011 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

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