I suppose these are rare..will keep a lookout for them..I'm in southwest BC now and after just over a month I'm already overwhelmed by the rich forest beetle fauna here. Do these frequent flowers &/or foliage? I'm asking this b/c I've collected Cephaloon before from such habitats. Also would be nice to know whether it was collected from a high elevation or lowland area. Great first posts for a newbie!

[well, maybe on this site...]
these definitely could not care less about flowers, unlike their Ceph. cousins who are all over the blossoming Umbelliferae [hmm... is Apiaceae the PC name?] in many places. The only S. aeneus i collected was taken at very low elevation, in a major river valley just above the floodplain -- and amidst a developed area, too, perhaps 3 km to the closest woods

Nice catch isn't it? But the beast made it easy...it came too me! I have to say that I don't know much about this one. It is the only specimen I ever encountered, but I know a friend which collected 5 or six, under the same conditions. That it prefers Ombelliferae over all other plants make sense. The spot I collected it from contains much of it. It was about 23°C that early night, a temperature very unusual for this part of the province. The elevation is around 900 m, well above the plains to the south. Monts-Valin National Park is considered high mountain area.
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