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Giant Green Click Beetle
Chalcolepidius bomplandi
16.4286, -91.0332
Field Notes
Description:
A giant metallic green Click Beetle with yellow-orange stripes on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, 3 cm long. Family Elateridae.
Habitat:
On a moss covered tree trunk, Lacandon Jungle, Mayan Ruins of Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico.
Notes:
It played dead when I touched it and was motionless in my hand for a while.
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2013/06/25/click-beetle-from-costa-rica-cha…
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/427776003/fullscreen
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/573165637/fullscreen
https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/17920094/fullscreen
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedApril 11, 2014
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