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Hi
I was teaching some orders of aquatic insects along Little River in Van Damme state park (redwood forest; about 1 mile inland from ocean ; Mendocino County) and we saw a red beetle? The texture of the wings very unbeetle like. It was on a thimble berry.
Teresa Sholars
Professor of Biological Sciences
Science Coordinator
Mendocino Coast Campus
College of the Redwoods
Hi Teresa,
This is one of the Netwing Beetles in the family Lycidae. We believe it is the Golden Netwing Beetle, Dictyopterus aurora. According to BugGuide, it is found over much of North America in the spring. Eric Eaton has added this qualification: ” The golden netwing beetle is definitely in the Dictyopterus genus, but there are several species in the west, so I would hesitate to put a species name to it. Probably not the same one as is found in the eastern U.S. at any rate.”
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