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Photo#319554
What am I?

What am I?
Yucca Valley, San Bernardino County, California, USA
August 12, 2009
Size: 3 cm

Images of this individual: tag all
What am I? What am I? What am I?

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

 
Moved?
Why has this been moved without being ID'ed?

 
Not to worry, Liz...
Your image has been somewhat identified (at least to sub-family anyway) and from what I understand of =v='s process, he has simply moved it to the appropriate page so that it can be further reviewed by the "beetle experts" who can sometimes miss images when they get lost in the large number of submissions to ID Request. I'm sure that if it is possible to identify your images further, then they still will be!

 
Sub family
Any idea on this one yet?

 
Patience
It can be hard to wait, I know, but try to have faith! For a multitude of reasons, some images take longer to ID than others. I know of certain images that have literally gone years before finally getting a species ID. Personally, I kind of like it when I've almost forgotten about an image entirely and then out-of-the-blue, there's a comment finally telling me the identity of my insect. It's like getting a surprise gift in the mail!

 
Thanks!
WOW! Had no idea some take so long. Thought it looked simuliar to the Cymatodera I posted but so many look so much alike that I don't know how you all figure out which is which. Thanks again and I'll be patient!

 
Different families...
Well, I don't know tons about beetles, but I can definitely tell you that this one is NOT related to the Cymatodera you had identified recently. Cymatodera are Checkered Beetles (Family Cleridae), and this specimen is a Long-horned Beetle (Family Cerambycidae).

There are truly an astounding number of different kinds of beetles, and it can take some time (and study) to learn to tell them apart even on a very basic level. The important thing is to just keep trying to figure it out, and also to have fun doing so! (*smile*)

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