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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) » Larvae & pupae
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Beetle Larva
Copyright © 2005 Stephen_WV

Beetle Larva
Near Ruraldale, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
April 12, 2005
Found under bark. With that head, I'm thinking Buprestid or Cerambycid. Help with ID appreciated.

Had an unusual method of locomtion: it moved by having waves of "skin" move down the body.
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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 29 April, 2005 - 8:14am
Last updated 30 March, 2012 - 4:28pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Larvae. Good grief, it took five years to get this right; in 2009, I noted that it was a cerambycid...but nobody took me up on it. So I did--ha!
… Richard L. Westcott, 30 March, 2012 - 4:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Metallic Wood-boring Beetles.
… Will Chatfield-Taylor, 14 December, 2007 - 10:49pm login or register to post comments

Buprestid
The large flattened 'head' is diagnostic - the Buprestids are sometimes refered to as "Flat headed wood borers" - examples of both Cerambycid and Buprestid larva can be found here.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 2 May, 2005 - 8:52am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks, Phillip. I think I was being misled by some of the Cerambycid species that also have large-headed larva—for example, Callidium violaceum on the page you referred me to. But it looks like the key to focus on is flat-headed larvae, whose heads are large as well as flat.

I will move this to the Buprestid pages.

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com
… Stephen_WV, 2 May, 2005 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

 
Beetle larva with flat head
This is not Buprestidae. Rather, it is Cerambycidae.
… Richard L. Westcott, 11 September, 2009 - 1:22pm login or register to post comments

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