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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Click Beetles (Elateridae) » Dendrometrinae » Prosternini » Corymbitodes » Corymbitodes tarsalis
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Click Beetle - Corymbitodes tarsalis
Copyright © 2014 Lisa I.

Click Beetle - Corymbitodes tarsalis
Deane, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA
April 19, 2014
Size: 12mm
Flew in my Granddaughters hair.
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Contributed by Lisa I. on 19 April, 2014 - 8:22pm

ID confirmed...
by examination of voucher specimen.
… Blaine Mathison, 1 June, 2014 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Click Beetles.
… v belov, 19 April, 2014 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

 
C. tarsalis looks good
There is a sibling species, C. dorothyae, in the same geographic area but it has a shorter (in relation to width) pronotum and more arcuate base to the pronotum. The pronotal punctures are different too, but they cannot be easily visualized in these images.

the following is available free online with a google search:

Knull JN. Two new species of Ctenicera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). The Ohio Journal of Science. 59: 87-89.
… Blaine Mathison, 19 April, 2014 - 8:36pm login or register to post comments

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