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Red-shouldered, metallic blue-green cerambycids - Grammoptera militaris - male - female

Red-shouldered, metallic blue-green cerambycids - Grammoptera militaris - Male Female
Along CA-178 near top of "narrow road" portion of Kern Canyon, Kern County, California, USA
April 6, 2014
Often technical taxonomic treatments focus on details of genitalia, and often field photos are of no help there. But here the male genitalia are somewhat visible, and interestingly, they look much like the stamen filaments of the ceanothus flowers (but with transverse circular ribs). Camouflage? :-)

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