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orionmystery
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  06:56:07  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit orionmystery's Homepage  Reply with Quote


From lowland forest of Selangor, Malaysia. Chewing on the bark of a tree

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Francesco
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  07:17:49  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit Francesco's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Evidently, Acalolepta... difficult from this positions, but you have already inserted pictures of species like that.
Possibly, Acalolepta rusticatrix.
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orionmystery
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Malaysia
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  08:06:56  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit orionmystery's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thank you, Francesco. Sorry, can't remember. I checked my flickr first before posting for help on ID. Didn't find any match in my Flickr.

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orionmystery
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Malaysia
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  08:24:00  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit orionmystery's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Was the Cerambycid going to lay egg in the hole, Francesco?

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Beckey
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Japan
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  09:38:05  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
According to the features of elytra and scutellum, I think this is Acalolepta rusticatrix, too.

By the way, Kurt, did the beetle stay on the live tree or dead tree?
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orionmystery
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  10:05:41  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit orionmystery's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thanks, Beckey. It was a live tree.

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Beckey
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Japan
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  12:16:52  Show Profile  Email Poster  Reply with Quote
Thanks Kurt.

In addition to this, your beetle seems a male by the length of antennae of this species.
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orionmystery
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Posted - 25/01/2015 :  14:25:05  Show Profile  Email Poster  Visit orionmystery's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Thanks for the info, Beckey. So it couldn't be laying egg then. Must be feeding on the tree.

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