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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) » Flower Longhorn Beetles (Lepturinae) » Lepturini » Xestoleptura » Xestoleptura octonotata
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Flower Longhorn - Xestoleptura octonotata
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Flower Longhorn - Xestoleptura octonotata
Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 16, 2005
Size: 10mm
There were 4 species of Flower longhorns in the same flowering plant. Any help on identifying this one would be great.
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Contributed by tom murray on 18 June, 2005 - 9:50am
Last updated 15 March, 2023 - 8:13pm

Xestoleptura octonata, I think
Looks like Xestoleptura octonata, Yanega, fig. 94, plate 9, descr. p. 43. Says it is 11-14 mm, larvae feed on oak. (1)

Neat, I'd like to see that one! Brimley (2) mentions it only in the mountains down here.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 18 June, 2005 - 3:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Patrick
It may have been over 10mm, because it was larger than the other species of flower longhorns it was next to.
… tom murray, 18 June, 2005 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Note my misspelling
Note that I misspelled the species name in my comment to your image. I corrected the guide page, so all should be OK.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 19 June, 2005 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

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