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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Cychrini
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Beetle larva
Copyright © 2014 Debbi Brusco

Beetle larva
Redwood Regional Park, Alameda County, California, USA
April 26, 2014
Size: ~12mm
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Contributed by Debbi Brusco on 28 April, 2014 - 7:35pm
Last updated 31 July, 2015 - 3:01pm

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… v belov, 31 July, 2015 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

Hi Debbie....this is a tenera
Hi Debbie....this is a teneral specimen...meaning that it just finished molting when it was picked up....the cast skin, called an exuvia, was left on the ground somewhere....the eye has more than one facet- all lampyrid larvae have only one- and it has a 5 segmented leg…and the antennae are long and slender..both are all wrong for lampyridae….There are lots of other characters to go on…. that orange anterior margin of the head, the shape of the pronotum and those very wide lateral overhangs on each thoracic and abdominal segment...these are called hypomera. That peg sticking out of the rear is the anal proleg, or pygopodium, and it looks like a single solid peg, but it should firm up during the teneral process and take on greater definition... So bottom line is that this thing could be one of many other beetle families. Somebody should recognize it...
… joeCicero, 20 July, 2015 - 10:00pm login or register to post comments

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