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| Bennyboymothman |
Posted - 03/05/2015 : 11:02:43
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Hi all.
I recently acquired this specimen and have searched hi and low for anything similar but I have run out of luck!
Data: 15-03-85 - San Pedro Columbia - Toledo - Belize 18mm
Thanks.
Ben |
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| jplami |
Posted - 04/05/2015 : 20:15:53
Agallissus melaniodes Dalman,1823 is not a flat-faced longhorned beetle :
genus Agallissus in tribe Agallissini (post belonging to Cerambycinae not Lamiinae) |
| Larry Bezark |
Posted - 04/05/2015 : 19:19:16
I just added Dan Heffern as the collector of the two beautiful beetles photographed by Mike Quinn, Thanks Dan.
Larry B. |
| Bennyboymothman |
Posted - 04/05/2015 : 18:35:00
Thanks very much, it had me stumped for a while.
It almost resembles a few specimens of Cleridae in my collection.
Nice images.
Thanks Mike.
Ben |
| dryobius |
Posted - 03/05/2015 : 13:09:30
Hi Ben, It's an Agallissus, there was a recent post of one. A. melaniodes Dalman, 1823. There are currently 6 species in this tribe and at least four are quite variable.
https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wdetails.asp?id=5723&w=n
The larvae of Agallissus feed in dead petioles of palm fronds. The link here shows a live adult and a teneral adult which I collected in South Texas at a wildlife preserve in 2009.
https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wdetails.asp?id=5720&w=n |
