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 Apparent 8-legged click-beetle
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| raywilson |
Posted on 12-07-2008 13:35
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 Member Location: Nottinghamshire, England Posts: 25 Joined: 07.08.07 |
I photographed this beetle in a mature oak wood in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland last weekend (5th July 2008). I think it is Athous haemorrhoidalis, but appears to be a very interesting mutant with 4 pairs of legs... Anyone ever seen an insect with 8 legs before? raywilson attached the following image:  [121.8Kb] Ray Wilson Nottinghamshire UK http://www.raywil...aphy.co.uk |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 12-07-2008 15:30
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2088 Joined: 26.04.07 |
No idea about the species (you can look for it at http://www.elateridae.com/result.php?fam=&sub=&gen=&id=&area=e) but it seems to have six legs as everybody. But there are cases of eight-legged insects, such a Lucanidae in collection (I don't remember the species nor the page where I saw it)... Also in an entomological bulletin I saw a case of Ruptela maculata (Cerambycidae) with 3 tibia on the same femur... one of them broken... |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 13-07-2008 01:58
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14115 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello! raywilson wrote: I think it is Athous haemorrhoidalis No, that can be excluded. More likely Hemicrepidius sp.. I think it's only a matter of perspective that both frontlegs are visible. Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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