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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Lamiinae) » Tetraopini » Milkweed Longhorn Beetles (Tetraopes) » Red-femured Milkweed Borer (Tetraopes femoratus)
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Tetraopes texanus - Tetraopes femoratus
Copyright © 2014 JDG

Tetraopes texanus - Tetraopes femoratus
Water Canyon, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
August 8, 2001
Size: 17 mm
On flowers of milkweed.
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Contributed by JDG on 13 January, 2014 - 9:02am
Last updated 31 December, 2016 - 4:09pm

Moved
Moved from Red-femured Milkweed Borer.
… Mike Quinn, 7 September, 2016 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tetraopes texanus.
… Mike Quinn, 7 September, 2016 - 1:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Milkweed Longhorns.
… Mike Quinn, 8 September, 2014 - 8:27am login or register to post comments

 
ID question
This one has a very distinctive "mid-pronotal callus" characteristic of T. femoratus. Are we sure this is T. texanus (which supposedly lacks this feature)?
http://bugguide.net/node/view/34342
… Russell Pfau, 31 August, 2016 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

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