Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown Coleoptera

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 06-07-2007 18:07
#1
Does anyone have an idea about this one? I found it on June 9th at Leerdam, Netherlands. Thanks in advance!

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 06-07-2007 18:07
#2
pic 2

Posted by Juergen Peters on 06-07-2007 19:17
#3
Hello, Jan!

It's a Cantharid beetle. Looks mostly like Cantharis lateralis but I'm no expert and there are other species with a similar looking colouration.

C. lateralis:
http://www.koleop...ehler.html

Others:
http://www.koleop...ehler.html
http://www.koleop...ehler.html
http://www.koleop...ehler.html

Posted by cthirion on 06-07-2007 19:29
#4
Cantharis?lateralis
with side of te wing and the appendices of the head fawn-coloured

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 06-07-2007 20:07
#5
Thank you very much, Juergen and cthirion! I suspected it was a Cantharis sp., but could not find a matching member of this genus. But lateralis seems perfectly right!