Majestic Longhorn Beetle - Stenocorus schaumii

Moved

Moved from Stenocorus. Looks like Stephen settled on this ID (Googling the species brought up his site!) This ID'd image looks like it as well.

… Mike Boone, 3 September, 2006 - 7:52am

Checked Yanega

Yanega's (1) plates show one possibility, a male Stenocorus schaumii. Range and flight period match. Checking for online photos.

… Troy Bartlett, 6 September, 2004 - 4:23pm

Some confusion

Some sites seem to use schaumi, but most use schaumii. Also, the photos I see online look a bit different than Yanega's. In Yanega the male has a black pronotum, but the text says it's usually orange. The leg coloration in Yanega also appears to match your photo, but not those online. Maybe that varies too.

The online photos don't show the elytra tips coming to a point, and I can't tell really from Yanega. Looking at your higher res version of the photo what does it show?

Of course, I could be completely off base. Maybe we'll see what some others think.

… Troy Bartlett, 6 September, 2004 - 4:37pm

Stenocorus Does Look Good, Thanks, Troy

The more I look at the pictures in Yanega the more I am convinced that your proposal of Stenocorus schaumii is a good one. Really nothing else matches. The on-line photos from Quebec are a bit different from the specimen in hand and from the photo in Yanega, but as Eric just reminded me, it doesn't pay for me to pin my ID on color and markings alone, since they can really be variable.

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com

… Stephen_WV, 6 September, 2004 - 6:32pm