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Brochymena quadripustulata

Brochymena quadripustulata
Snowhill Road north of Cabin Branch Creek, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
November 1, 2007
Size: 15 mm
Detail of head, pronotum, showing lateral teeth on juga, characteristic of genus Brochymena. You can also see the four prominent yellowish pustule-like marks on the pronotum and back, which I presume give the species its name. Other characteristics of species visible here (1):
  • juga exceed tylus, usually meet in front of it
  • humeral angles ("shoulders") of pronotum bluntly pointed

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