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Dear Colleagues,

Here is another interesting beetle, this time from Vietnam. It can be somekind of Cantharoidea but I do not know. Has anybody ever seen weird antennas like this one has?



Tamás

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Drilidae

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Research Fields
Taxonomy, ecology, biomonitoring , faunistic of Staphylinidae

That kind of biramose antennae is found in some Lampyridae, for example Cyphonocerus

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for replies. I found some beetles in our collection near to Lampyridae, which ones are labeled as "Rhagopthalmidae". I think this group belongs to Lampyridae family now. Those ones have exactly this kind of antennae.
We have only one species of the genus Cyphonocerus, this is C. sanguineus Pic, 1911. This one also has this strange antennae. So problem solved!

thanks a lot Marco!

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Since that time I realized, it is not a Lampyrid. It is Elateroidea: Rhagophthalmidae Olivier, 1907.
Tamás.

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