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Bennyboymothman
Member Rosenbergia

United Kingdom
1628 Posts

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

Edited by - Xavier on 03/05/2015 13:48:54

dryobius
Member Rosenbergia

USA
1885 Posts

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

Bennyboymothman
Member Rosenbergia

United Kingdom
1628 Posts

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

Larry Bezark
Member Macrodontia

USA
2212 Posts

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.

jplami
Member Rosalia

France
656 Posts

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)

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