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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flower Longhorns (Lepturinae) » Lepturini » Typocerus » Typocerus octonotatus
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Flower Longhorn - Typocerus octonotatus
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Flower Longhorn - Typocerus octonotatus
Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
July 9, 2005
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Contributed by tom murray on 20 July, 2005 - 9:31pm
Last updated 14 June, 2007 - 11:31am

Do not dismay...
...even the "experts" can't agree all the time. For the most part you all have done an admirable job identifying the species correctly - especially considering most of the IDs are from a photo only and not examination of the specimen under a microscope. Little by little we get the tough ones sorted out.
… Ted C. MacRae, 14 June, 2007 - 2:02pm login or register to post comments

Thanks Ted
Moved from Notch-Tipped Flower Longhorn.
… tom murray, 14 June, 2007 - 11:31am login or register to post comments

I believe this is...
...Typocerus octonotatus rather than T. sinuatus. The latter species usually exhibits more defined elytral markings with a dark transverse basal band. Typocerus octonotatus should be much more abundant than sinuatus in that area.
… Ted C. MacRae, 14 June, 2007 - 9:47am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for straightening this out, Ted.
So many insects here are wrongly defined from so many insects wrongly defined.
… Ron Hemberger, 14 June, 2007 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

 
On second thought...
...this could also be a Typocerus confluens, a closely related species. Usually they are less maculate than T. octonotatus with more of a reddish than yellow ground color, but well-marked individuals can look very similar and can only be separated with certainly by examining the terminal abdominal segments.
… Ted C. MacRae, 15 June, 2007 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

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