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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Cardiophorinae » Cardiophorus » Cardiophorus gagates
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Click Beetle - Cardiophorus gagates
Copyright © 2013 tom murray

Click Beetle - Cardiophorus gagates
Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
May 27, 2013
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Contributed by tom murray on 28 May, 2013 - 9:26pm
Last updated 19 June, 2013 - 9:56pm

Moved
That was helpful Hume! Gagates it is! Darn. lol

Moved from Cardiophorus convexulus.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 June, 2013 - 9:56pm login or register to post comments

Moved...tentatively...
I have the specimen in-hand. It's rather hairy but the prosternal process does not appear to be margined ventrally to the apex. Also, antennomere III is long in comparison to II.

Will forward the link to Hume Douglas to see if the 'gestalt' grabs him :). If correct, another new species for BugGuide (and my reference collection :).

Moved from Cardiophorus.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 June, 2013 - 5:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Another useful character is t
Another useful character is that the pronotal lateral carina (called submarginal line in 2003 revision) joins the lateral edge of the hind angle in C. gagates (nearly all specimens) and it does not in convexulus. The genitalia of either sex would also be indicative.

I would guess by the long antennae that it is a male C. gagates though. It the dense pale hairs actually reminds me most of male gagates from coastal areas from NJ to FL.
… Hume Douglas, 19 June, 2013 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved...another robustus?!?!
Moved from Click Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 29 May, 2013 - 8:26am login or register to post comments

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