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Northeastern Pine Sawyer

Monochamus notatus

General description 7

Similar to Monochamus scutellatus, but are gray, white, and black in color (Ives and Wong, 1988). "Body 25-35 mm long and black with pronotum more shiny than other species. Elytra usually gray in males while varied in females. Head is broadest below the eyes" (Yanega, 1996). Linsley and Chemsak (1984) report that the antennae extend 6 segments past elytra, legs with white hair and face large and flattened.

Habitat 8

Dead and dying coniferous trees.

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  6. (c) Phil Myers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://animaldiversity.org/collections/contributors/phil_myers/coleoptera/Cerambycidae_a-m/Monochamus9477/medium.jpg
  7. (c) University of Alberta Museums, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/31889724
  8. (c) University of Alberta Museums, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/31889725

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