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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 » Strangalia » Strangalia acuminata
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Flower Longhorn beetle?? which one? - Strangalia acuminata
Copyright © 2005 Leo Spinner

Flower Longhorn beetle?? which one? - Strangalia acuminata
Carlisle, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 7, 2005
Size: 2 inches approx.
My friend sent this to me. I have no idea what it is. My best guess it a Flower Longhorn Beetle (genus Strangalia ) It was found last in Central, PA . he gacve no more info than that.

thanks

Jo

PS-the location is just a guess-I'll correct it if necessary-the system wouldn't let me put up the photo without more info.
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 7 June, 2006 - 10:53am
Last updated 20 May, 2009 - 10:29pm

Moved
Moved from Flower Longhorns.
… Harsi S. Parker, 20 May, 2009 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

choice . . .
If choice is only between B.scalaris and S.acuminata, then it is the latter: B.scalaris has brown antennae!

:-)
… Boris Büche, 2 April, 2007 - 9:06am login or register to post comments

 
I agree with Boris
Strangalia acuminata (Olivier, 1795)
… Dennis Haines, 12 January, 2009 - 10:23am login or register to post comments

 
that's nice to know at last -- thanks, Dennis
(i'm trying to learn some basics here about Amer. longhorns & stuff...)
… v belov, 12 January, 2009 - 10:26am login or register to post comments

 
may be a dumb question:
in other specimens on the S. acuminata page pronota look more evenly conical, less shiny, and the heads/eyes/necks very diff., too. Are they all indeed the same sp.?
… v belov, 12 January, 2009 - 10:35am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Longhorned Beetles.
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 December, 2006 - 4:19pm login or register to post comments

Bellamira scalaris?
Looks rather like Bellamira scalaris at Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 7 June, 2006 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

 
I thought it reminded me more of
http://bugguide.net/node/view/18782

what do you think?
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 8 June, 2006 - 1:48am login or register to post comments

 
Comparison Strangalia acuminata
Yes, that looks close as well. Yanega (1) illustrates both. Usually S. acuminata is shown with some orange on elytra, but Yanega says that is variable. Bellamira has a "neck" between the head and pronotum, perhaps visible here--I'm not sure.

Whatever species, this has to be a male, with that expanded abdominal tip.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 8 June, 2006 - 6:12am login or register to post comments

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