
	Description
	The body is mostly brown. The front of the head pale orangish-yellow. The plate covering the thorax (pronotum) is pale orangish-yellow with two large brown spots. The hardened wing covers (elytra) are brown with a thin, pale orangish-yellow line and a thin, pale orangish-yellow outer margin. The markings on the pronotum and elytra resemble those of a firefly (family Lampyridae). There is a small, triangular indentation on the forehead (frons) between the eyes, and a prominent ridge on the head between the frons and the upper lip (labrum).

	Size
	Total length: ⅜″ to ⅝″

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	Habitat
	Coniferous and deciduous forests.


	Biology
	Season


	Behavior
	They are attracted to lights in late spring and early summer. Adults are found on vegetation. Larvae are found in leaf litter and decaying wood.

	Life Cycle


	Larva Food


	Adult Food


	Taxonomy
	Order	Coleoptera (beetles)
	Suborder	Polyphaga (water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
	Infraorder	Elateriformia
	Superfamily	Elateroidea (click, firefly, and soldier beetles)
	Family	Elateridae (click beetles)
	Subfamily	Denticollinae
	Genus	Denticollis

	Synonyms


	Common Names
	toothed click beetle

Glossary

Elytra

The hardened or leathery forewings of beetles used to protect the fragile hindwings, which are used for flying. Singular: elytron.

Frons

The upper part of an insect’s face, roughly corresponding to the forehead.

Labrum

The upper part of the mouth, sometimes considered the lower part of the face, corresponding to the upper lip, on an insect or crustacean.

Pronotum

The exoskeletal plate on the upper side of the first segment of the thorax of an insect.


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