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Shielded Firefly Beetle
Aspisoma sp.
22.51, -100.47
Field Notes
Description:
A neat Firefly with expanded, mostly transparent elytra and thoracic shield. About 1 cm long. In the second and 4th pictures the underside of the beetle is visible with a single large photo-luminescent patch on the penultimate abdominal segment. Family Lampyridae.
Habitat:
Came to the lights at a store, Axtla de Terrazas near Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2016
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