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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Elaterinae » Elaterini » Sericus » Sericus viridanus
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Click Beetle - Sericus viridanus
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Click Beetle - Sericus viridanus
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 25, 2011
Found on a small white pine.
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Contributed by tom murray on 26 May, 2011 - 8:31pm
Last updated 28 June, 2011 - 12:27pm

Moved
Moved from Click Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 28 June, 2011 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ampedus.
… Blaine Mathison, 24 June, 2011 - 2:01pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Click Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 12 June, 2011 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

looks intriguing and vaguely familiar
[which might well mean nothing]
could this be, very theoretically, Melanotus dichrous?
or same as

??
… v belov, 27 May, 2011 - 1:55am login or register to post comments

 
In a week or so
Blaine should be getting these specimens and we'll find out:-)
… tom murray, 27 May, 2011 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

 
i know
will try to live to see his comments
… v belov, 27 May, 2011 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

 
let's hope for something cool...
honestly, I still have my $$ on this being an Ampedus (the lighter basal antennomeres isnt usually seen in Melanotus) but we shall see...
… Blaine Mathison, 27 May, 2011 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

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