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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Chlaeniini » Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles (Chlaenius) » unidentified larvae (Chlaenius unidentified larvae)

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Copyright © 2006 tom murray

beetle larva? - Chlaenius

Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
June 8, 2006
Size: 6.5mm

This ended up in my net that I ran through the edge of the water and grass in the Nashua River. I first noticed it eating a midge on my net.

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Contributed by tom murray on 8 June, 2006 - 6:50pm
Last updated 27 October, 2019 - 1:58pm

Moved

Moved from Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles.

… Curt Harden, 27 October, 2019 - 1:58pm

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Moved

Moved from unidentified larvae.

… Even Dankowicz, 3 December, 2015 - 8:14pm

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Moved

Moved from Ground Beetles.

… john and jane balaban, 1 August, 2008 - 3:27pm

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Thanks Margaret

It does look very similar to this Galerita larva.

… tom murray, 28 June, 2007 - 5:57am

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Chlaenius, most likely subg. Chlaeniellus

Kirill Makarov det.

… v belov, 30 March, 2009 - 4:27pm

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Staphylinid larva

Thanks Boris.

… tom murray, 30 March, 2007 - 6:19am

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not a staphylinid - a carabid

The flattened head, basally fixed/fused urogomphi (the pair of processes on abdominal segment 9), and extra leg segment (separate tarsus and claw) compared to staphs (fused "tarsungulus") say Carabidae (ground beetle). I imagine someone who knows carabid larvae would recognize it in an instant, as it's very distinctive. I don't think any staph larvae are this darkly pigmented, but I know that happens in some carabids (like Galerita, which has a very different form).

… Margaret Thayer, 27 June, 2007 - 11:01pm

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I think, its a Staphylinid larva

:-)

… Boris Büche, 30 March, 2007 - 6:09am

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Water Beetle Larvae?

Looks like it could be the larvae of the Great Diving Beetle or something similar.

… Brittanie McCormack, 22 June, 2006 - 6:20pm

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I agree

it's most likely some sort of water beetle larvae, but I have no Idea which family it would belong to. I hope one of the beetle experts comments. Thanks Brittanie.

… tom murray, 22 June, 2006 - 9:24pm

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