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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Parandrinae » Pole Borers (Neandra) » Pole Borer (Neandra brunnea)
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Odd red beetle - Neandra brunnea
Copyright © 2008 Jonas Insinga

Odd red beetle - Neandra brunnea
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
August 1, 2007
Size: 3/4 of an inch - 1 inch?
Another beetle attracted to my summer-night porch lights. It's not a stag beetle (which we DO have in the area). I can't say too much about it. sorry. :/
Like the Reticulated beetle I posted earlier, it played dead for me, but with jaws wide open.

UPDATED 11/12/2020: While going through older photos to update the counties my pictures were taken in, I noticed that I didn't include the date when this photograph was taken. The date that I've posted is an approximation.
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Contributed by Jonas Insinga on 23 January, 2008 - 7:24pm
Last updated 12 November, 2020 - 7:39pm

Moved
to the species page. Nice find up here in New England!
… tom murray, 23 January, 2008 - 10:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you. :D It really feel
Thank you. :D
It really feels great to be able to contribute to something that can be of use to others.
… Jonas Insinga, 25 January, 2008 - 10:36am login or register to post comments

Neandra (Parandra) brunnea
Believe it or not this is a Long-horned Beetle in the Cerambycidae.
… Dennis Haines, 23 January, 2008 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Scepticism
I dunno... I've seen plenty of Long horns in & this doesn't seem like one.
...
Oh wow! You're right! D:
My apologize!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Longhorn_Parandra_brunnea_1.jpg

Wow... that has to be the most un-longhorn-like longhorn I've seen. :D
… Jonas Insinga, 23 January, 2008 - 10:09pm login or register to post comments

 
I don't blame you for being s
I don't blame you for being sceptical, it really does look like it belongs with the stag beetles rather than Cerambycidae.
… Dennis Haines, 24 January, 2008 - 11:55am login or register to post comments

 
Well, scaraboid beetle all (t
Well, scaraboid beetles all (to my knowledge) have lobed antenna that can be collapsed into a club shape, so I was somewhat certain it wasn't a stag beetle.
It looked a little like a darkling beetle (a very, very little), but honestly, I hadn't the slightest idea what to make of it.
All I knew was that jaws like that are good for chewing into wood.
… Jonas Insinga, 24 January, 2008 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Actually,
lucanids (stag beetles) can't collapse their antennal laminae together and they are scaraboids. I think there may be others also.
… Jim McClarin, 17 February, 2008 - 4:52am login or register to post comments

 
huh...
I never knew that...
… Jonas Insinga, 17 February, 2008 - 12:14pm login or register to post comments

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