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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Dendrometrinae » Prosternini » Actenicerus » Marsh Click Beetle (Actenicerus cuprascens)

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Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Hairy Click Beetle - Actenicerus cuprascens

Woodford, Bennington County, Vermont, USA
May 4, 2006
Size: 14.5mm

This hairy elaterid has a nice diamond pattern down each side of it's elytra.

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Hairy Click Beetle - Actenicerus cuprascens

Hairy Click Beetle - Actenicerus cuprascens

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Contributed by tom murray on 5 May, 2006 - 8:39pm
Last updated 4 February, 2009 - 7:22pm

Moved

Moved from Ctenicera sjaelandicus.

… tom murray, 4 February, 2009 - 7:22pm

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Moved

I move this beetle to the Ctenicera page since that was already in the guide. Should it be changed to Actenicerus, or just put Actenicerus as a synonum?

… tom murray, 4 February, 2009 - 5:49pm

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Sorry again: ActenicerUs, not Actenicera (my fault)

:-(

Boris

… Boris Büche, 1 December, 2006 - 7:03am

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yes, Actenicerus sjaelandicus (Mueller)

this guy was correctly IDed to sp. the first time, but assigning the species of the traditional American "Ctenicera" to various narrower genera had been a matter of endless debate for decades, and i have little hope we'll see the end of it

… v belov, 4 February, 2009 - 12:16pm

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Actenicerus sjaelandicus is correct for this one

i didn't mean it should be moved back to "C."

… v belov, 4 February, 2009 - 5:54pm

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Moved

Moved from Ctenicera sjaelandicus.

… tom murray, 1 December, 2006 - 6:56am

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species ID withdrawn

Hi Tom,

hope I do not disappoint you . . . I just learned from a paper I fished from the web, Paul J.Johnson found out, there is not ours, but two sibling species in your fauna (Actenicera cuprascens LeConte, A.viridis Say, formerly subgenus of Ctenicera). Genus ID is better than nothing, and perhaps one of the species rules out because of distribution? Photo is excellent, in any case!

regards, Boris

… Boris Büche, 1 December, 2006 - 6:39am

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Moved

Identified by Boris Bueche as Ctenicera (Actenicerus) sjaelandicus, an import from Europe.

… tom murray, 22 November, 2006 - 7:04pm

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