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Stictoleptura c. canadensis - Stictoleptura canadensis - female

Stictoleptura c. canadensis - Stictoleptura canadensis - Female
Brookline, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
July 25, 2005
Size: 18 mm
Flew indoors through open door. At first glance It looked like a smallish Elderberry Longhorn, but its antennae were banded and the elytral blue was more navy-to-black. Agrees with body shape, colors and pattern for female of species, Yanega, plate 6, however, it is 3mm longer than the upper limit given in that source (10-15mm). If ID is correct, the extrusion from the posterior must be an ovipositor.

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Stictoleptura c. canadensis - Stictoleptura canadensis - female Stictoleptura c. canadensis - Stictoleptura canadensis - female Stictoleptura c. canadensis - Stictoleptura canadensis - female Stictoleptura c. canadensis - Stictoleptura canadensis - female

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Looks good to me
Added guide. Length is tough - do you measure speciman stretched out? to the tip of the elytra only or abdomen?, etc.

 
Mandibles to abdominal apex
Please educate me if this is the wrong way to measure. When I shoot in my light arena I almost always have a stainless steel rule on the colored background and retain one-to-several shots in which the subject can be measured against the rule. These are not always the best images, so I don't always post them.

My subjects are usually alive, as this one was, so they are not un-naturally extended.

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