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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Cardiophorinae » Cardiophorus » Cardiophorus pubescens
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Generic but cooperative little black beetle - Cardiophorus pubescens
Copyright © 2012 Jerry Friedman

Generic but cooperative little black beetle - Cardiophorus pubescens
Española, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA
March 22, 2012
Size: 8-9 mm long
I'm pretty sure this is the same one I saw flying around at the same spot, slowly, almost drifting. However, when I got close, it "froze" on this twig and let me move the twig for several minutes while I photographed it from different angles (and from too close, sorry).

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Contributed by Jerry Friedman on 22 March, 2012 - 11:06pm
Last updated 26 November, 2012 - 3:22pm

Moved
Moved from Cardiophorus.
… Blaine Mathison, 26 November, 2012 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cardiophorinae. Thanks to V., Blaine Mathison, and Hume Douglas!

The guide doesn't have a page for C. pubescens. I'll let others decide whether "probably" is a good enough reason to create a page with these images.

And next time I'll try to get a picture of the hypomeron. Speaking of turning it upside-down, can this beetle "click"? I'll be disappointed if I missed my first chance to see that.
… Jerry Friedman, 23 March, 2012 - 9:46am login or register to post comments

Cardiophorinae
Cannot separate Horistonotus from Cardiophorus without seeing the hypomeron, but my gut instinct says this is going to be a Cardiophorus. The western fauna is in dire need of revision and until that's done few species from out West will be reliably identified to the species-level.
… Blaine Mathison, 23 March, 2012 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

 
from Hume Douglas:
"Cardiophorus sp., probably C. pubescens. That is the only species known from NM, and it looks similar enough. The antennae of that species are/can be long."

Type here.
… Blaine Mathison, 23 March, 2012 - 9:40am login or register to post comments

Horistonotus? tough, interesting group
many spp. in the southwest; hope Blaine narrows it down

Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 22 March, 2012 - 11:40pm login or register to post comments

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