1.	Reviewed by CalPhotos Staff    Apr 12, 2004
	Action: changed name from "" to "Cantharis sp. "
	Reviewer's comments:
	"E-mail from Patrick Coin, coinpg@durhamtech.edu, Durham Technical Community College: This photo is of two pairs of Beetles mating. They are of family Cantharidae, probably genus Cantharis. The biology is interesting--the males appear to be dead! One reference describes how the males of this genus may give their own body as a nuptial gift! See: The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour, By Rod Preston-Mafham, Ken Preston-Mafham, MIT Press, 1993, ISBN: 0262161370; page 11. That reference has an illustration of this cannibalistic behavior in the European Cantharis rustica."

 
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