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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) » Cerambycinae » Achrysonini » Icosium » Icosium tomentosum
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Longhorn Beetle - Icosium tomentosum
Copyright © 2010 Cindy Calisher

Longhorn Beetle - Icosium tomentosum
Fullerton Arboretum, Orange County, California, USA
August 17, 2010
Size: 1" not counting antennae
It came to a sheet, illuminated by a black light.

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Contributed by Cindy Calisher on 18 August, 2010 - 2:35pm
Last updated 19 August, 2010 - 11:13am

This guy is just so awesome l
This guy is just so awesome looking. Great find, Cindy!!!
… Julie , 28 August, 2010 - 10:50pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Longhorned Beetles.
… margarethe brummermann, 19 August, 2010 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

WOW !!!! That's a pretty co
WOW !!!! That's a pretty cool find. This is a recently introduced species, Icosium tomentosum. It's from the Mediterranean region and feeds locally in the Orange County area on columnar Cypress. By chance was there any of that host plant around??

By any and all means possible ... COLLECT ANY OF THESE BUGS YOU FIND !!!

Any other info on this critter would be helpful.
… Ian Swift, 18 August, 2010 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Dang, I released it already
I don't think we have those columnar cypress trees at the Fullerton Arboretum, but they're fairly common "landscape trees" in the general area. This particular beetle was attracted to my sheet and black light that I had set up where the nearest trees were citrus, oaks and a huge ash tree.

I don't know how to change this page to include all the proper taxonomic stuff. I don't even know what all that "stuff" should say! (That's why I'm an amateur bug-ologist.) Would appreciate help with that. Thanks :)
… Cindy Calisher, 19 August, 2010 - 8:47am login or register to post comments

 
Send me an email, I'd love to
Send me an email, I'd love to discuss this find a little more with you. My email is ian@pleocoma.com.
… Ian Swift, 19 August, 2010 - 11:29am login or register to post comments

 
Whew!
I'm glad it's introduced (well, not really). I was racking my brain over it but could just not identify it. Thanks, Ian.
… Michael C. Thomas, 18 August, 2010 - 10:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Yeah, it's darn cool (as you
Yeah, it's darn cool (as you say, sort of). If I hadn't known about the introduction, I'd be totally clueless as well. My knowledge of obscure bycids from all over the world is slim at best.
… Ian Swift, 18 August, 2010 - 10:48pm login or register to post comments

location info incomplete; pls select state
… v belov, 18 August, 2010 - 6:53pm login or register to post comments

 
D'oh! Sorry.
:/
… Cindy Calisher, 18 August, 2010 - 7:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Brad Barnd, 18 August, 2010 - 4:42pm login or register to post comments

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