black-orange-chartreuse netwing beetle - Erotides sculptilis

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Net-winged Beetles (Lycidae) » Erotinae » Erotides » Erotides sculptilis

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Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

black-orange-chartreuse netwing beetle - Erotides sculptilis

Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Size: 9 mm

Collected as pupa under bark of rotting pine stump. I didn't get around to photographing the pupa, but I was struck by its color: pale chartreuse.

As you can see, the elytra are not sound on this one. They were either congenitally defective or more likely broken near their humeri or base, causing them to flop open and reveal the wings.

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black-orange-chartreuse netwing beetle - Erotides sculptilis

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 June, 2006 - 9:45am
Last updated 3 October, 2008 - 5:42am

Moved

Moved from Net-winged Beetles.

… Jim McClarin, 3 October, 2008 - 5:42am

Erotides sculptilis (Say)

S.Kazantsev det.

… v belov, 3 October, 2008 - 2:09am

Excellent!

Thanks to Kazantsev and you, Belov, for going through these long overlooked lycids. Peering at Don Chandler's New Hampshire checklist I find no Erotides sculptilis but there is a Platycis sculptilis. Perhaps there has been a name change? Neither Nomina Nearctica nor American Beetles show an Erotides but both show the monospecific Platycis so I think I will move it there.

… Jim McClarin, 3 October, 2008 - 5:25am

yes,

sculptilis, as too many others, seems vagrant :-]
Kazantsev leaves comments himself using my login, that's the way he likes it for some reason

… v belov, 3 October, 2008 - 5:37am

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