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Etorofus plebejus
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Ilona L.
beetle -
Etorofus plebejus
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
July 8, 2008
Looks like a wedge-shaped beetle but I didn't find any with this single color.
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Contributed by
Ilona L.
on 17 January, 2010 - 5:43pm
Last updated 15 December, 2010 - 10:37pm
i'm sure this is it -- great call guys; will ask Doug to check
surprisingly, a rarely photographed one -- or just rarely posted? looks so damn generic...
Moved from
Beetles
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v belov
, 18 January, 2010 - 4:23am
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Cerambycidae: Lepturinae
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Blaine Mathison
, 17 January, 2010 - 6:48pm
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Agree, Lepturinae
It looks like Leptura plebeja in Yanega's
Northeastern Longhorned Beetles
, but I'm no cerambycid expert.
Leptura
spp. do appear to have long tibial spurs in Yanega's photos.
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Margaret Thayer
, 17 January, 2010 - 10:10pm
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Yes, they do,
as this photo illustrates:
Obviously I overlooked that genus. (And, just as obviously, erred in referring to "tarsal" rather then "tibial"spurs.) Many thanks for the correction and enlightenment!
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 17 January, 2010 - 10:21pm
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Doug Yanega says,
"almost certainly the black form of
plebeja
; the angle is not ideal, but it looks as if the humeral angle bulges rather than forming a relatively even convexity with the pronotum. It does overall look broader and duller, as well.
"206932 and 864471 both look much more like
lugubris
; too bad there's no scale bar - the size difference between these species is pretty significant."
the last paragraph refers[thumb:] to these:
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v belov
, 13 July, 2017 - 4:51pm
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That's what I was thinking...
but I didn't see any Lepturines with such large tarsal spines.
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Ken Wolgemuth
, 17 January, 2010 - 6:56pm
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