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Post by mothman27 on May 22, 2016 14:41:44 GMT -8
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Post by bichos on May 22, 2016 22:53:28 GMT -8
Im affraid not. Those larvae and pupae resemble Tenebrionidae more closely although they are not. But one thing im sure about is that they are not Ceruchus who's larvae are curled like a C. Lucanid/scarabidae larvae are often refered to as curled grubs. The ones pictured are elongated. Good luck, keep looking. |
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Post by bichos on May 24, 2016 15:43:51 GMT -8
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Post by mothman27 on May 24, 2016 17:02:34 GMT -8
Thank you for correcting me.
Are the larva more often found in logs than the ground?
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Post by bichos on May 24, 2016 21:35:04 GMT -8
You're welcome.
Youll find them inside logs only. Look for those with bracket fungi growing on them ;-)
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Post by bandrow on May 26, 2016 18:59:47 GMT -8
Greetings, I don't have an actual image of wood from which I've reared - or collected - Ceruchus piceus, so I went on the internet and hunted for a similar example. This image shows the red-rotten stage that I've found them in. I'm not sure of the tree species I found them in, or even if it was a single species or various species of wood, but the stage of decay was always the same. They were always in this kind of solid, slightly damp, red-rotten wood and nearly always in logs lying on the ground - and often fairly large in diameter (1-2'). Hope this narrows down a search image for you.  Cheers! Bandrow |
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 6, 2016 10:28:31 GMT -8
I found an adult male last night. I am also keeping a large adult male of D. parallelus I found a couple weeks ago.
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Post by tv on Jun 16, 2016 20:17:43 GMT -8
I've found both males and females at black lights here in MA. They seem relatively small though, about 12-14mm for the males.
I was also noticing that in Arthur Evans beetle book he has their range as far south as Georgia and as far west as Kansas.
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Post by bandrow on Jun 26, 2016 13:59:46 GMT -8
Greetings,
I took a single female Ceruchus piceus in a UV light trap in my back yard last night. Location is in a suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of the Pittsburgh area. Never seen it here before, and there is certainly nothing special about the habitat in the area - yards and some scattered wooded remnants.
Cheers!
Bandrow
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 30, 2016 10:55:14 GMT -8
I found an adult male last night. I am also keeping a large adult male of D. parallelus I found a couple weeks ago. Is 26mm large for D. parallelus? |
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Post by bichos on Sept 24, 2016 23:11:43 GMT -8
[/quote]Is 26mm large for D. parallelus?[/quote]
26 is a good size. Yes...
Once you get a series of them you can compare and gauge the larger limits of the species. Ive collected 5 specimens and the largest is 24.5mm.
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 14, 2017 18:13:46 GMT -8
Got this female D. paralellus(I think) last night.   I can't figure out what this one is. Possibly a female C. piceus or a carabid? Other?  around 15mm long. Both are from Whitley Co., Indiana, June 2017. |
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Post by bandrow on Jun 15, 2017 16:58:41 GMT -8
Hi Tim,
Your beetles are both female lucanids - the larger is Dorcus parallelus (as you suspected) and the smaller is indeed a female of Ceruchus piceus. Not too many options for lucanids in your area. Besides these two species, you should have Lucanus capreolus and maybe L. placidus, Platycerus virescens and Nicagus obscurus - a really cool little species found on sand bars of creeks in early spring.
Cheers!
Bandrow
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 17, 2017 14:15:53 GMT -8
I have now collected both males and females of C. piceus, L. capreolus and D. parallelus. I have not encountered any other lucanids as I rarely leave my property stricktly to collect. So all three are from one location. Where/how would I find P. virescens and L. placidus? Thanks for the ID, I am surprised but happy to learn that it really was a female C. piceus. Thanks, Tim Here's a male C. piceus from last year:  |
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 18, 2017 11:04:33 GMT -8
Last night I found another female Dorcus parallelus but considerably bigger than my other one. I would like to get eggs, how should I go about this? So far I have put the two females in a container with dead rotting wood, probably Ash( Fraxinus). Here they are:  Thanks, Tim |
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