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Flower longhorned beetle

Cosmosalia chrysocoma

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38.7702, -104.854

Field Notes

Description:

Roughly 17 millimeters long, brown covered in bright golden hairs (overcast and windy day prevented getting good lighting on this specimen).

Habitat:

Mixed conifer forest at nearly 7,000 ft. elevation. Other native trees include aspen, Gambel's Oak, alder, chokecherry. Conifers include Ponderosa Pine, spruce, Douglasfir.

Notes:

Formerly known as Lepturobosca chrysocoma.

Reference Links:

A Longhorned Beetle (Cosmosalia chrysocoma) - Information on A Longhorned Beetle, Species Lepturobosca chrysocoma - BugGuide.Net

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