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 coleoptera larva ?
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| BubikolRamios |
Posted on 24-10-2010 08:02
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 1728 Joined: 14.06.09 |
I guess coleoptera larva? Possibly from this coleoptera: http://agrozoo.ne...d08e4a5d80 Both found on same spot at same time. Just guessing. BubikolRamios attached the following image:  [74.59Kb] Edited by BubikolRamios on 26-10-2010 01:34 highly searchable nature photo galery --> http://agrozoo.ne....jsp?l2=en |
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| jorgen |
Posted on 24-10-2010 09:28
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Member Location: Belgium Posts: 75 Joined: 25.07.05 |
It's an adult Coleoptera from the Staphylinidae family. Those beetles have short elytra. |
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| atylotus |
Posted on 24-10-2010 09:48
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 Member Location: Amsterdam, NL Posts: 1164 Joined: 29.05.09 |
The immatures of Coleoptera are called larva(e) for they are holometabolic i.e. a complete metamorphosis (egg-larva-pupa-imago; as in Diptera and Lepidoptera). The immatures of hemimetabolic insects are called nymphs i.e. the immatures have the appearance of the adult and after each moult resemble them even more. They do not have an actual pupal stage (as in Heteroptera or Odonata). Under the shortened elytra you will discover true wings, which are absent in larval and nymphal stages. In nymphs you only have wingsheaths, becoming progressively longer after each moult. I'm not much of a Coleoptera specialist but this picture seems to be Staphylinidae as Jorgen suggest, but the other one on agrozoo.net seems to be another family. There is more than one Coleoptera family with reduced elytra. |
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| BubikolRamios |
Posted on 24-10-2010 15:19
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 1728 Joined: 14.06.09 |
atylotus wrote: The immatures of Coleoptera are called larva ... Yeah I know, just had a zilion other things on my mind. Thanks for correction. Edit: this: Proteinus ovalis http://www.koleop...ewilde.jpg looks compatible to mine:http://agrozoo.ne...d08e4a5d80 Edited by BubikolRamios on 24-10-2010 15:33 highly searchable nature photo galery --> http://agrozoo.ne....jsp?l2=en |
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| nielsyese |
Posted on 26-10-2010 16:47
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 Member Location: Yerseke, NL Posts: 2356 Joined: 13.02.09 |
Sorry, no Proteinus spec. |
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