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Field Notes

Description:

Escarabajo de la familia Lampyridae.
Cualquier aportación es de gran ayuda, muchas gracias.

Habitat:

Bosque subtropical perturbado.

Notes:

Autor de la foto: Billo Zamudio Palestino.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
Billo-kun
Thank you so much @LaurenZarate & @bayucca :) for the information, unfortunately the beetle fly when I took the photo number 5 :( sorry.
bayucca
That's our problem, most of them are unidentified...
LaurenZarate
This looks like a Lampyrid, even with those antennae. I saw one from Paraquay and similar in color: http://www.faunaparaguay.com/lampyridae.html Did you happen to get a ventral photograph?

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