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Dichelotarsus laevicollis
Photo#528134
Copyright © 2011
Charley Eiseman
Black cantharid -
Dichelotarsus laevicollis
Mt. Greylock summit, Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
June 10, 2011
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Contributed by
Charley Eiseman
on 12 June, 2011 - 5:15pm
Last updated 8 February, 2013 - 10:03pm
Moved
Moved from
Dichelotarsus puberulus
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v belov
, 8 February, 2013 - 10:00pm
Another opinion
I just gave Georges Pelletier permission to use this photo in a virtual key to the Cantharidae of Northeastern America in the online journal CJAI (Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification) -- but he says it is
Dichelotarsus laevicollis
-- so a difference in opinion taxonomically as well as with the specific ID.
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Charley Eiseman
, 3 January, 2013 - 2:15pm
Moved
Moved from
Malthacus
.
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v belov
, 24 July, 2011 - 12:11am
Podabrus puberulus LeConte
This is
Podabrus puberulus
LeConte, a very common and characteristic species in the northeast. Note the all black colouration and the narrow, shiny glabrous pronotum with the pale apical corners. These rufous apical corners can vary from covering almost all of the apical angle in the explanate portion of the elytra, to being only a very small spot at the extreme apex. It looks rather similar in overall appearance to
Podabrus laevicollis
(Kirby), however, in
P. laevicollis
the pronotum is entirely a dark testaceous to piceous, never showing the pale apical front angle of the pronotum chacateristic of
P. puberulus.
.
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Christopher Majka
, 23 July, 2011 - 11:39pm
ha! feeling vindicated...
thanks a ton, Kristof.
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v belov
, 24 July, 2011 - 12:17am
i give up :(
i've managed to rule out every single ne. sp. treated in D&A & UNH DB, the 'least ineligible' one being
puberulus
LeC.
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v belov
, 13 June, 2011 - 3:37am
Hmm...
Are there any dorsal/lateral details that would help? Should this still stay in
Malthacus
? Thanks for all the effort.
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Charley Eiseman
, 13 June, 2011 - 7:07am
cool; those goth jobs seem uncommon in the east
Moved from
Beetles
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v belov
, 12 June, 2011 - 5:58pm