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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Fire-Colored Beetles (Pyrochroidae) » Pyrochroinae » Dendroides » Dendroides canadensis
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Beetle larva - Dendroides canadensis
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Beetle larva - Dendroides canadensis
Harms Woods, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
April 8, 2006
Size: ~18mm
Different lighting which shows the setae along the sides.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 19 April, 2006 - 9:32pm
Last updated 18 January, 2009 - 9:30am

Moved
Moved from Fire-Colored Beetles.
… john and jane balaban, 18 January, 2009 - 9:30am login or register to post comments

Pyrochoidae
This long, very flattened shape and long terminal segment are characteristic of the Fire-colored Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 19 April, 2006 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Jim!
We knew you would know. Now we have to find the adult Fire-colored beetle :-)
… john and jane balaban, 19 April, 2006 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Put a blister beetle in a pitfall trap
and see if you can lure some male Pyrochroids looking for a cantharidin supply. Either that or rear some larvae. (Feed them termites or ant pupae.) Due to their habits and short lifespan, adults are rarely encountered.

Edit: I was wrong about other subcortical insects being their primary food. Apparently they eat the rotting cambium layer of the bark.
… Jim McClarin, 20 April, 2006 - 6:25pm login or register to post comments

elateriform?
im thinking click beetle larvae
… Omar Fahmy, 19 April, 2006 - 9:38pm login or register to post comments

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