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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Dendrometrinae » Dendrometrini » Hemicrepidiina » Hemicrepidius » Hemicrepidius melanophthalmus
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Click Beetle - Hemicrepidius melanophthalmus
Copyright © 2012 Ilona L.

Click Beetle - Hemicrepidius melanophthalmus
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
July 26, 2012
Size: ~14mm - estimated
Attracted to lights. Hemicrepidius bilobatus?

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Contributed by Ilona L. on 9 August, 2012 - 11:49am
Last updated 12 January, 2021 - 12:19pm

Moved
Moved from Hemicrepidius bilobatus.
… Blaine Mathison, 12 January, 2021 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Click Beetles.
… Ilona L., 9 August, 2012 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

yes, H. bilobatus
good call
… Blaine Mathison, 9 August, 2012 - 12:27pm login or register to post comments

 
Ilona is spectacularly good with her bugs.
impressed.
… v belov, 9 August, 2012 - 12:45pm login or register to post comments

 
good teachers
I have good teachers on this website.
… Ilona L., 9 August, 2012 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

 
yes...
especially since the antennae here are not at all diagnostic-LOL.

For this paricular species, the membranous tarsal pads, buggy eyes, and depressed frons all point to Athoini. The prolonged pronotal hind angles support Hemicrepidius. Hemicrepidius bilobatus is the only (currently described) species in the U.S. lacking carinae on the pronotal hind angles.
… Blaine Mathison, 9 August, 2012 - 12:47pm login or register to post comments

 
It also helped that there was
It also helped that there was a similar beetle posted from Milwaukee, WI.
… Ilona L., 9 August, 2012 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

 
antennae are at least somewhat diagnostic
not too many clickers have those so thin, almost thread-like
… v belov, 9 August, 2012 - 1:05pm login or register to post comments

 
:)
I used the shape of the antennae as a starting point and then managed to narrow down the options from there.
… Ilona L., 9 August, 2012 - 12:39pm login or register to post comments

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