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Species Lepturobosca chrysocoma

golden flower longhorn beetle - Lepturobosca chrysocoma

Some kind of Long-horned Beetle? - Lepturobosca chrysocoma

Cosmosalia chrysocoma - Lepturobosca chrysocoma - male

Long-horned Beetle - Lepturobosca chrysocoma

Unknown Beetle - Lepturobosca chrysocoma

Beetle & Yarrow Plant - Lepturobosca chrysocoma

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)

Subfamily Lepturinae (Flower Longhorn Beetles)

Tribe Lepturini

Genus Lepturobosca

Species chrysocoma (Lepturobosca chrysocoma)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cosmosalia chrysocoma

Explanation of Names

Lepturobosca chrysocoma (Kirby in Richardson 1837)

chrysocoma ='gold-haired'

Size

10-20 mm

Identification

The very dense, appressed, metallic golden pubescence is distinctive(1)

Range

Canada to n. Mexico(2)

Food

Larvae eat decaying wood, both hardwoods and conifers(1)

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.

2.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

Contributed by Stephen_WV on 12 June, 2005 - 7:08am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 August, 2017 - 4:37am

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