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05-06-2007, 06:27 PM
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| | | Long horn beetle (?) ID
This was walking over some plastic sacks today. It is about 22mm long and brownish. There seems to be a hint of olive about the elytra.
The nearest I can find are the longhorn beetles and the shape is something like Aromia moschata but the colour doesn't seem right. My books also say that is found on willow and poplar and there are none near me.  |
06-06-2007, 08:45 AM
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| | | Re: Long horn beetle (?) ID
I think it is Stenocorus meridianus. |
06-06-2007, 09:49 AM
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| | | Re: Long horn beetle (?) ID
Aromia moschata taken in Bulgaria last summer. Cerambycid beetle on Flickr - Photo Sharing! |
06-06-2007, 10:15 AM
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| | | Re: Long horn beetle (?) ID
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Originally Posted by Laurence Clemons  I think it is Stenocorus meridianus. |
Quite likely - it's a variable species: http://www.uochb.cas.cz/~natur/cerambyx/stenmer.jpg Cerambycidae is the most comprehensive resource I know for European longhorns. |
06-06-2007, 10:20 AM
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| | | Re: Long horn beetle (?) ID
i think it may be a musk beetle, Aromia moschata, as you said. The colour in the photo in my collins book looks more green. But reading the text it says it varied from green to blackish bronze, sometimes with a coppery sheen. So that might cover your beetle.  |
06-06-2007, 04:33 PM
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| | | Re: Long horn beetle (?) ID
The antennae are a bit short for Aromia moschata. Stenocorus meridianus looks most likely. The photo on the website mentioned by Paul shows two longitudinal ridges on the elytra, which my specimen has. I also found a photo on another site of an almost black example so the colour range could well include mine.
Why do I only find beetles that aren't in my books?  |
06-06-2007, 04:51 PM
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| | | Re: Long horn beetle (?) ID
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Originally Posted by Misanthrope The antennae are a bit short for Aromia moschata. Stenocorus meridianus looks most likely. The photo on the website mentioned by Paul shows two longitudinal ridges on the elytra, which my specimen has. I also found a photo on another site of an almost black example so the colour range could well include mine.
Why do I only find beetles that aren't in my books? | ... be no fun if they were all in the books ... 
The only thing that bothers me, really, is the variation in leg colour ---- but I've no idea how significant that is in cerambycids  Many of them do have major variations which would seem quite significant in other families. We all live and learn | | |
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