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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
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

Moved
Moved from Pyrophorini.
… Robyn Waayers, 28 September, 2013 - 5:14pm

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

 
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

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