Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 18th May 2013
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Micro-Nikkor 105mm
Can anyone explain the drops of dark fluid on the beetle and plant?
Flat-faced Longhorn Beetle
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 16th May 2013
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Micro-Nikkor 105mm
Another one of these, second one this week. Smaller this time and at the foot of an exit door stairwell.
about 5cm long.
Typocerus species beetle
Kirby State Forest,
Hardin Co., Texas
18 May 2013
Dimorphic Flower Longhorn beetles (Anastrangalia laetifica), Mendocino National Forest, CA-162/FH 07, 3,600 feet elevation, Glenn County, California - 14 May 2013.
Callimoxys fuscipennis (Cerambycidae, longhorned beetle), male, Mendocino National Forest, CA-162/FH 07, 3,600 feet elevation, Glenn County, California - 14 May 2013. This particular species of cerambycid was extremely abundant here this morning, with likely hundreds found on each flowering Ceanothus shrub. The female looks a bit different.
Triodoclytus lanifer longhorned beetle (Cerambycidae), Mendocino National Forest, Glenn County, California - 14 May 2013. Visiting Ceanothus flowers at 3,600 feet elevation along CA-162. One of the coolest-looking beetles I've found in a while.
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 15th May 2013
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Micro-Nikkor 105mm
This very impressive beetle was sitting in the walkway of an apartment complex here in Hong Kong. I've search for a good while to try and find a match but came up empty handed. Any ID help would be greatly appreciated.
about 7cm long. horns about 14cm
I got him to sit on my grey card so the color should be pretty spot on.
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae; also known as long-horned beetles or longicorns) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body. In various members of the family, however, the antennae are quite short (e.g., Neandra brunnea, figured below) and such species can be difficult to distinguish from related beetle families such as Chrysomelidae. The family is large, with over 20,000 species described,...
