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Longhorn beetle with black and brown elytra and yellow on body - Lepturobosca nigrolineata

Longhorn beetle with black and brown elytra and yellow on body - Lepturobosca nigrolineata
Santa Fe Ski Basin, Santa Fe National Forest, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
August 1, 2010
Size: 1 cm?
I cropped out one antenna. Other insect parts belong to a wasp that I've uploaded here (different crop of the same picture, with the missing antenna, even). The flower is Veratrum californicum, California corn lily or false hellebore.

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Longhorn beetle with black and brown elytra and yellow on body - Lepturobosca nigrolineata Longhorn beetle with black and brown elytra and yellow on body - Lepturobosca nigrolineata

cool. thanks all!
Moved from Beetles.

 
Yes, thanks!
Interesting that they're rare overall, because they weren't rare last month at the Santa Fe Ski Basin. Since Veratrum californicum blooms in good numbers there every summer (unlike most places, where it apparently blooms very sporadically), that might be a good place to find it every summer.

It's funny that the other (and considerably better) image from the wild was uploaded the same day as this, and the first image of a specimen was uploaded less than two weeks earlier. So maybe this was an especially good summer for it in northern N. M.

(By the way Edward, I don't recall seeing Queen Anne's Lace on the Winsor Trail, but there's a lot of cowbane, Oxypolis fendleri, near water there.

 
"Queen Anne's Lace"
Don't consider Queen Anne's Lace a reliable ID. I've seen the subject beetle along Winsor Trail and on Elk Mountain on two or three different kinds of flowers this year. What they all have in common is that the blooms consist of large clusters of small white flowers. I'll email you a picture of one flower for positive ID.

I've not collected them on previous years, so it may indeed have had an unusually high population this year. I've been collecting there for 20 years, and would never pass up a cerambycid. I'll submit my own pics soon. I've been holding off until my imaging system is upgraded.

Yes, Cosmosalia nigrolineata.
Yes, Cosmosalia nigrolineata. Very rare bug.

Cosmosalia nigrolineata, perhaps
I've collected these on Winsor Trail just north of the Santa Fe Ski Basin on California corn lily and Queen Anne's Lace. It is probably a Cosmosalia nigrolineata. This species is found in Colorado and New Mexico, and "In addition to the narrowly dark margins of the elytra, the short curved pubescence will readily distinguish this species from C. chrysocoma", as described in Gorton Linsley and John A Chemsak, Cerambycidae of North America, Part VI, No. 2 - Taxonomy and Classification of the Subfamily Lepturinae, p. 185 (1976)(1).

I will submit high resolution images of one of my own specimens in the near future.

 
Thanks.
Very interesting.

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