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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) » Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Lamiinae) » Acanthocinini » Hyperplatys » Hyperplatys aspersa
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Beetle ID Request - Hyperplatys aspersa
Copyright © 2008 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Beetle ID Request - Hyperplatys aspersa
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
July 15, 2008
Observed on a Physalis sp.
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 24 July, 2008 - 12:54am
Last updated 5 January, 2009 - 6:15pm

Moved
Moved from Hyperplatys.
… john and jane balaban, 5 January, 2009 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

Looks like
… john and jane balaban, 24 July, 2008 - 1:12am login or register to post comments

 
Does
it make a difference that my specimen has a cross-shaped black mark on the plate behind the eyes where the other H. aspersa images show numerous spots?
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 24 July, 2008 - 1:16am login or register to post comments

 
vote for H. aspersa
*
… v belov, 5 January, 2009 - 5:01pm login or register to post comments

 
We would doubt it,
but it will be interesting to see what the expert coleopterists have to say.
… john and jane balaban, 24 July, 2008 - 9:31am login or register to post comments

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