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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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beetle larva? - Chlaenius
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 login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from unidentified larvae.
… Even Dankowicz, 3 December, 2015 - 8:14pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… john and jane balaban, 1 August, 2008 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

Thanks Margaret
It does look very similar to this Galerita larva.
… tom murray, 28 June, 2007 - 5:57am login or register to post comments

 
Chlaenius, most likely subg. Chlaeniellus
Kirill Makarov det.
… v belov, 30 March, 2009 - 4:27pm login or register to post comments

Staphylinid larva
Thanks Boris.
… tom murray, 30 March, 2007 - 6:19am login or register to post comments

 
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 login or register to post comments

I think, its a Staphylinid larva
:-)
… Boris Büche, 30 March, 2007 - 6:09am login or register to post comments

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 login or register to post comments

 
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 login or register to post comments

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