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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Elateriformia » Click, Firefly and Soldier Beetles (Elateroidea) » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Agrypninae » Pyrophorini » Vesperelater » Vesperelater arizonicus
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Bioluminescent Click Beetle - Vesperelater arizonicus - male
Copyright © 2013 Robyn Waayers

Bioluminescent Click Beetle - Vesperelater arizonicus - Male
Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, USA
July 26, 2013
Size: 22 mm
Found near my black light just below the uppermost parking lot. gathering_2013

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Bioluminescent Click Beetle - Vesperelater arizonicus - male Aedeagus - Vesperelater arizonicus - male
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Contributed by Robyn Waayers on 2 August, 2013 - 3:58pm
Last updated 28 September, 2013 - 5:18pm

Moved
Moved from Vesperelater.
… Robyn Waayers, 28 September, 2013 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Pyrophorini.
… Robyn Waayers, 28 September, 2013 - 5:14pm login or register to post comments

Is this
the bioluminescent one we saw "winking" at us when we turned off Margarethe's blacklights?
… Jon Rapp, 3 August, 2013 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Probably,
...but there are two species, in two different genera that have these bioluminescent spots, and apparently only looking at the genitalia will distinguish them conclusively. I also saw one high in the tree that I hung my sheet from at Pena Blanca when I was taking everything down. It was moving around in the branches - looked like two bright little eyes!
… Robyn Waayers, 3 August, 2013 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Bioluminescent click beetles
I observed multiple specimens flying above the roadway near the Mt. Hopkins Whipple Observatory August 10th 2001 at 11:00pm. I managed to capture a couple but turned them loose after checking them out. I had never seen them before during many years of light trapping insects in the area, pretty cool animals!
… Kaslo, 14 March, 2023 - 11:38pm login or register to post comments

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