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Firefly beetle

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.

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4 Comments

Billo-kun
Billo-kun 10 years ago

Thank you so much @LaurenZarate & @bayucca :) for the information, unfortunately the beetle fly when I took the photo number 5 :( sorry.

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

That's our problem, most of them are unidentified...

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

This looks like a Lampyrid, even with those antennae. I saw one from Paraquay and similar in color:
http://www.faunaparaguay.com/lampyridae....
Did you happen to get a ventral photograph?

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Lampyridae, Firefly.

Billo-kun
Spotted by
Billo-kun

Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

Spotted on Jul 29, 2013
Submitted on Aug 1, 2013

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