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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Soldier Beetles (Cantharidae) » Chauliognathinae » Trypherus » Trypherus latipennis
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Backyard halfwing - Trypherus latipennis - male - female
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Backyard halfwing - Trypherus latipennis - Male Female
Balaban garden, Skokie, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 8, 2006
Size: ~7mm
Jane wanted to try out her new flash so we went hunting in the back yard and found these crazy guys. Looks like beetles with elytra covering only half their body and "whiskers".

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 8 July, 2006 - 9:15pm
Last updated 4 August, 2008 - 10:50am

Moved
Moved from Trypherus.
… john and jane balaban, 25 June, 2007 - 3:42pm login or register to post comments

Wait - we may have answered our own question!
What about Belotus abdominalis in Cantharidae. Yanega has an image, fig 353. Anybody know anything about them?
… john and jane balaban, 8 July, 2006 - 11:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Belotus in Indiana
I'd agree these look like Belotus. I don't know anything about them, but I just caught a few on the side of a house directly above a wood pile yesterday in West Lafayette, IN.
… Jeff Holland, 22 June, 2008 - 9:59am login or register to post comments

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