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Flat-faced Longhorn Beetle

Hemierana marginata

Photo by KenCheeks
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Field Notes

Description:

This is one of the flat-faced, long-horned beetles with orange/yellow markings on the head/thorax and leathery black hind wings. Size is 6-11 mm.

Habitat:

This one was photographed in a mixed pine-hardwood forest adjacent to a large lake along the Bartram Trail in east-central Georgia.

Notes:

Some of its host plants include ironweed (Vernonia, Asteraceae), puccoon (Lithospermum, Boraginaceae), and wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia, Asteraceae).

Reference Links:

Species Hemierana marginata - BugGuide.Net

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Wildlife of the South East, USA
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Wildlife of Georgia
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Biodiversity of SouthEastern US
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Beetles (and kin) of the Southeastern US

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PublishedJuly 16, 2013

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