Longhorn Beetle - Plinthocoelium

P. suaveolens!

Would be a good bet. P.s.suaveolens is what is listed in
(1) w/orange & black legs. Another spp has all black
legs.

… Bruce Getty, 18 July, 2012 - 9:36pm

P. suaveolens

Hi Bruce,

How about P. chiliensis?

… Stanley, 18 July, 2012 - 11:06pm

Bycid species!

Stanley: Don't have any info or photo's or keys for that one and
for some reason, I could not access the Harvard MCZ data base. Tell
us more eh!

… Bruce Getty, 19 July, 2012 - 8:40pm

Bruce

Here is a URL for Cerambycidae of Mexico. They have a reasonable picture of P. chiliensis which looked promising but my expertise is in botany, not entomology. Obviously I have an interest though. I gather a lot of these species of beetles may be quite variable. Plus it would be hard to accept at face value the ID from a picture posted on the internet (lol). Anyway, it might be a starting point www.coleoptera-neotropical.org/paginas/2_PAISES/Mexico/Cerambycidae/cerambycinae-mex.html

Cheers!
Stanley

… Stanley, 19 July, 2012 - 10:38pm

Bycid

Stanley, tks, interesting web site. Take a look at your critter again
and see if the following is noticable: To me, the P. chilensis in the
link photo has all red femora and the elytral apices looks truncated,
whereas yours has the black femoral apices and the elytral apices
appears rounded. Let me know what you think!

… Bruce Getty, 20 July, 2012 - 11:34am

P. suaveolens suaveolens

Bruce,

Great catch and observation. Clear as a bell. On my specimen the femora is bicolored and the elytral apices are rounded opposed to femora being solid red with truncated sides to the apex of the elytral on P. chiliensis. Where they list species if you click on P. suaveolens it pulls up five pictures. The last one shows an individual with purplish/blue elytral and bicolored femora. Great match. As you suggested from the get go. Right on!!! Thank you very much for your expertise and your time you spent on this little mystery!!!

Cheers!
Stanley

… Stanley, 20 July, 2012 - 1:09pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Brady Richards, 18 July, 2012 - 4:18pm

Plinthocoelium

Thanks Brady for the quick response and genus name. I appreciate it. The beetle is actually 3.5 cm long, I picked the specimen up and measured it. Cheers! Stanley

… Stanley, 18 July, 2012 - 4:36pm

All I can say is

Darn you Texans with all these cool longhorn beetle photos with which you taunt me...er, that is, thanks for posting the photo. It really is a cool beetle. Hopefully, one of the longhorn guys will be able to give you a species ID.

… Brady Richards, 18 July, 2012 - 4:39pm