beetle larvae ID ..anybody?

[Galapoheros]

I was riding my mountain bike today and found these beetle larvae, some kind of ground beetle. I don't know the species but I know what sp they aren't, they aren't Calosoma scrutator. That's all I know since I see those a lot. Anybody have an idea? I don't remember every seeing larvae like these. I was going up a hill and saw two cut off from the grass by a curb. I had to put one in by gps and the other in my radio ..after taking the batteries out. My hunch is that they prefer soft bodied stuff like caterpillars because they hunt and capture like Calosoma scrutator, that likes caterpillars and have a hard time capturing hard-bodied stuff.

[beetleman]

ooh! awesome! man i love ground beetle larvas,it could colosoma calidum,slightly smaller the scrutator.or it could that other colosoma sp.they are jet black as adults. but ya know w/these it can be alittle tricky w/them, awesome find! keep them and see what happens

[osmbr]

those would be cool to have

[Galapoheros]

Originally Posted by beetleman

ooh! awesome! man i love ground beetle larvas,it could colosoma calidum,slightly smaller the scrutator.or it could that other colosoma sp.they are jet black as adults. but ya know w/these it can be alittle tricky w/them, awesome find! keep them and see what happens

I like'em too. It'd be a lot cooler if they were 5 inches long though . Yeah I plan on keeping them, hoping to see the turn into beetles. I still don't know what Pasimachus larvae look like .

[zonbonzovi]

Neato- looks like an H.R Geiger painting come to life. You'll have to update when it becomes an adult...

[beetleman]

Originally Posted by Galapoheros

I like'em too. It'd be a lot cooler if they were 5 inches long though . Yeah I plan on keeping them, hoping to see the turn into beetles. I still don't know what Pasimachus larvae look like .

wow if they were 5" yeah that would be cool,i still would love to see a pasimachus larva too,never seen them either,.............i'm gonna have to look into this

[mitchnast]

i think it sorta looks like an adult of something closely related to fireflies

[Galapoheros]

You're prob thinking of Phengodidae but I know what those look like around here so it's not that, it does have a look similar to that though. It looks like we are going to find out what species this is. It made a chamber and has been on it's back for several days.


Here's an extra pic of something I found by a lake crawling on a rock.

[ZergFront]

Wow, you have some neat insects there. First time I saw a hellgrammite in a creek I thought I found a new species.

Can't tell you what those are.

[Galapoheros]

Here it is now, but I still can't tell what species it is. It does kind of look like a calosoma species but it seems to small .

[Elytra and Antenna]

It's wingcases are hollow so the beetle will look bigger than the pupa.
The larvae looks like Calosoma but I don't remember the little tails offhand.

[Galapoheros]

OK yeah, I wasn't considering the open space under the wing cases, hmm, well, the only other Calosoma sp I've seen around here are solid black, don't think they are calidum though, I've been looking at pics of those. The solid black ones around here don't have those greenish dots on the wing cases, not that I remember, just black.

[beetleman]

wow, that little sucker is coming along great! it's so interesting to see this

[Galapoheros]

Moving along!, changing color:

[beetleman]

...............nuff said