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Orange beetle with long antennae - Ernobius

Orange beetle with long antennae - Ernobius
Mussel Rock Park, Daly City, San Mateo County, California, USA
March 7, 2015
Size: maybe near 5 mm
Beat from cypress tree.

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Orange beetle with long antennae - Ernobius Orange beetle with long antennae - Ernobius Orange beetle with long antennae - Ernobius

their antennae are pure outrage
must be a make

Moved from Beetles.

 
Awesome -
thanks v. A new one for me.

 
i meant male, not 'make' --sorry
too bad no one has a clue about species :/
large genus in dire need of revision in NA, but also tough even in Europe where the fauna is reasonably well understood (and most spp. develop in cones, as far as i know -- probably that's how they live here in America, too)

cool beasts at any rate

 
thanks -
For the info v - is each species specific to a particular tree species? I'm pretty sure this one was on a Monterey cypress...

 
i withdraw my earlier statement
"Larvae of Ernobiinae bore beneath bark or into the wood of dead or dying softwoods and hardwoods [...] Some species bore into cones of conifers. Ernobius bicolor White was found to feed on old cones that remained on ... Picea mariana"(1)

so it looks like the cone-feeders are a minority; still, i would expect a rather high degree of host specificity but can't really tell

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