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Issue: Vol. 3915 No. 2: 3 Feb. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.2.9
Page range: 295–300
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 3

A description of the Larva of Metapteron xanthomelas (Lucas, 1857) from the Restinga Forest of Southeastern Brazil (Coleoptera: Lycidae, Calopterini)

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP), Setor de Entomologia, Laboratório de Sistemática, Evolução e Bionomia de Coleoptera, Avenida Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, CEP: 04263–000, São Paulo–SP, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP), Setor de Entomologia, Laboratório de Sistemática, Evolução e Bionomia de Coleoptera, Avenida Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, CEP: 04263–000, São Paulo–SP, Brazil.
Elateroidea Lycid beetle Calopterini Larva Neotropical region

Abstract

The last instar larva of Metapteron xanthomelas (Lucas, 1857) is described. This is the first description of a larva for the genus. Two live larvae collected in the Brazilian Atlantic coast Restinga Forest of Itanhaém, São Paulo, were reared, one to adult and one was fixed in the last instar. This larva differs from the known Calopterini larvae by the absence of urogomphi, the dorsal abdominal segments undivided and strongly alveolate ornamentation on the head.