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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Fire-Colored Beetles (Pyrochroidae) » Pyrochroinae » Neopyrochroa » Neopyrochroa flabellata
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Fire-colored Beetle Larva - Neopyrochroa flabellata
Copyright © 2012 Jon Rapp

Fire-colored Beetle Larva - Neopyrochroa flabellata
Columbia / Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Boone County, Missouri, USA
February 22, 2012
Size: 1" or so
Found this guy underneath a rotting log. It is flattened, segmented, has pincher like front and rear. Found images of a Flat Bark Beetle Larva ID'd as Cucujus clavipes. May not be it, but closest thing we could find to it. Whadya think?

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Contributed by Jon Rapp on 23 February, 2012 - 9:30pm
Last updated 24 February, 2012 - 10:46am

thanks, Dan & Jon
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 24 February, 2012 - 8:30am login or register to post comments

Neopyrochroa flabellata (Fabricius)
This is a larva of Neopyrochroa flabellata (Fabricius), in the family Pyrochroidae. Finding it "underneath a rotting log" is precisely the microhabitat.
… Dr. Daniel K. Young, 24 February, 2012 - 8:27am login or register to post comments

 
Much Thanks!
DKYoung & Vbelov for your excellent ID assistance.
… Jon Rapp, 24 February, 2012 - 10:39am login or register to post comments

pyrochroid, suspect Neopyrochroa
… v belov, 23 February, 2012 - 9:41pm login or register to post comments

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