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Longhorn Beetle

Tribe Cerambycini

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Beetle-like with long antennae.

Habitat:

Monastery near Kewzing Village. A rural, remote and hilly area of Sikkim. Although it was raining and October is not a good month for moth-ing, we saw many moths on the walls, stairs, gates and corridors of this monastery near the tourist town of Ravangla. It is a short drive from Kewzing.
This insect was approaching a moth and I thought it was a spider...but it isn't. It is a long-horn beetle.

Reference Links:

Cerambycini - Wikipedia

Species ID Suggestions

Longhorn beetle

Cerambycini sp.

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Comments (2)
thaptor
Body seems to have fine, silky cover - a characteristic of the genus Aeolesthes. A species of smaller size occuring in Himalaya: https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wdetails.asp?id=47349&w=o (only a guess! not the only genus containing "silky" species)

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Longhorn Beetles (Global)
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PublishedNovember 13, 2016

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