Collecting myrmecophilic beetles

thank you!

Here's another interesting thing. Yesterday I dug up similar anthills and found a lot of strange beetle larvae sitting in clay cases. It is difficult to say who the larvae look like, probably more like a scaraboid. The forehead of the larvae is flat, so that it's cool to cover the exit with a lid, and the legs seem to be pointed towards the end, and the abdomen expands towards the end. On average, the length of the cover is 12 mm, and the larva is about 1 cm. The covers have a kind of clay pattern at the top - stripes in the form of a "Christmas tree".
Very interesting are your suggestions about who it is!
I can't take a photo yet, but later, if they don't take a break yet, I'll do it

  
Very interesting are your suggestions about who it is!

My guess is that the larvae are Clytra sp.

I agree with Necrocephalus. By the way, Ripper, you should have a whole bunch of species of this genus in there. We are deprived of one type

100% - leaf beetle larvae from the genus Clytra! I also once thought of the scarabaeidae, but the leaf beetles have been bred... By the way nothing about this genus is mentioned in the identification of soil larvae!

Thanks!
Who deduced, knows how best to do it?

I have a dozen covers with larvae "lying around" in a liter jar filled with substrate from an anthill. The jar was covered with a polyeth lid. When one beetle hatched, I realized who it was, lost interest and dumped all the contents in the yard...

yes, it would probably be better to just let them go, since the view is common and not very interesting
But today I found some scarabaeid larvae in an anthill, that's for sure.. it looks like bronzes, about the size of Aurat larvae, whose?

Surely there are bronzes! And with the clitters you are in vain, I emphasize once again - you have many types of them, not just one four-point.

We should try to get these people out... In fact, in the anthills (in our north) - bronze copper, and in Moldova m. b. and something else. I join Omag about the clitr - it is also necessary to withdraw...

This post was edited by Elizar - 03/29/2007 07: 38

Okay , I'll take it out and repeat it. Although I doubt that it's anything interesting, since I haven't seen any of them interesting.. Always only 1 species, and I caught many near that place.. Well, then I'll wait for what's how, and then I'll throw