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Sotol stalk grubs - Thrincopyge alacris

Sotol stalk grubs - Thrincopyge alacris
Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
December 25, 2005
Size: 30 mm approx.
20 or 30 of these grubs were inside the dead flower stalk.

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Buprestidae?
In my larval chart, photocopied from Evolution of Insects, Grimaldi D. & Engel M. S., the Buprestidae are just that shape...