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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) » Prioninae » Prionini » Prionus » subgenus Prionus (Prionus subgenus Prionus)
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Big (47 mm long) beetle in Northern New Mexico... cockroach? - Prionus
Copyright © 2010 Canton Becker

Big (47 mm long) beetle in Northern New Mexico... cockroach? - Prionus
Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
June 29, 2010
Size: 47 mm
My 2 year old son found this dead beetle outside on our porch. If we find a live one we'll photograph it for sure, but this is the first of these I've seen in the area. Browsing this site, kind of looks like a cockroach, but then again, kind of not...

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Contributed by Canton Becker on 29 June, 2010 - 10:12pm
Last updated 28 November, 2011 - 9:41am

Moved
Moved from Prioninae.
… v belov, 28 November, 2011 - 9:41am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Brad Barnd, 16 July, 2010 - 6:51pm login or register to post comments

Prionus californicus
Looks Like the California Prionus Longhorned beetle Prionus californicus - see photo link below

… Jim Moore, 29 June, 2010 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

 
California Prionus Longhorned beetle
Yes, my kittens were playing with one of these last night. It made a noise like a rattlesnake, and I went to see what was going on. Our house is in Gallinas Canyon, which is outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico, at an altitude of about 7500 feet. My husband grew up there and never saw anything like it before...are these guys a new "invasion"? A previous poster's note was dated 2010. Thanks
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