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Lycidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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; Banded Net-wing Beetle - Calopteron reticulatum; Calopteron sp.; Calopteron sp. (larva); Golden Net-Winged Beetle - Dictyopterus aurora ... ; Golden Net-Winged Beetle - Dictyopterus aurora; Eropterus trilineatus; Lopheros fraternus; Lycus arizonensis...
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Provides photographs and a description of this beetle, its distribution, life cycle and biology.
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Identification, Images, & Information; For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin; For the United States & Canada; ... Register · Log In ... BugGuide Gathering; Pack Forest; Washington State; July 10-12, 2009; Details...; Photos from the 2009 gathering; Photos from the 2008 gathering in Tennessee; Photos from the 2007 gathering...
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Identification, Images, & Information; For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin; For the United States & Canada; ... Register · Log In ... BugGuide Gathering; Pack Forest; Washington State; July 10-12, 2009; Details...; Photos from the 2009 gathering; Photos from the 2008 gathering in Tennessee; Photos from the 2007 gathering...
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As a light scattering of raindrops from an early September thunderstorm fell over Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains, I spotted this Net-winged Beetle (Lycus fernandezi) feeding on Mule's Fat (Baccharis salicifolia) flowers while I was walking back to take shelter in my car.
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It looks to me like it is the End-Banded Net-Wing Beetle, Calopteron terminale. While it does look ... Net-winged beetles are broadly related to fireflies (they are in the same superfamily, the Elateroidea). and they have kind of a shield structure in front of the wings that they tuck their heads under, like fireflies do.
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(alwild (at) myrmecos.net). Most of the photographs on myrmecos.net are reduced from their original size and compressed for more efficient web transmission. ...
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Looking like a trilobite, or perhaps a mutant millipede, a heavily armored beetle larva crawls through the leaf litter in an Illinois forest. This predaceous insect belongs to the family Lycidae Lampyridae, the net-winged beetles fireflies.
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Family Lycidae, Subfamily Lycinae, Tribe Lycini ... Photos: Lycus sp. - A pair of net-winged beetles in copula - Alex Wild ... Texas Beetle Information...
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