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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae) » Cantharinae » Cantharini » Cantharis » Cantharis rufa
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Cantharis sp. - Cantharis rufa
Copyright © 2012 Roxanne S. Bernard

Cantharis sp. - Cantharis rufa
St-Malo, Québec County, Quebec, Canada
March 23, 2012
Size: 12mm
I am perplexed about this cantharis. The size, the partern for the tibia and the femora, head reddish...but no dark central mark on the vertex (C. livida)

But C. rufa is very variable in both coloration and form...The Apex of the last visible abdominal sternite is not a easy character for a identification confirmation and I have not other specimen for a comparision of the last sternite.

So What do you think? Thanks a lot. - RSB

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Contributed by Roxanne S. Bernard on 23 March, 2012 - 8:57am
Last updated 23 March, 2012 - 10:45am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 23 March, 2012 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks it confirms my first i
Thanks it confirms my first idea.
… Roxanne S. Bernard, 23 March, 2012 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

Might be something else
I saw one of these about a week ago. Looking it up in a book, I ID'd it and wrote down the name. I don't have that with me now, but I'll try to find it. From memory, the name might have been a bit different from what you have listed.
… jross12, 23 March, 2012 - 9:52am login or register to post comments

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