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Description:

Photo take at home by the garden found this strange beetle, as sun it detect me make it´s self like a ball and stay like that playing dead at least by 1 hour I wait for it to move, till i get tire and left. About 1cm.

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Comments (17)
KarenL
Awesome! What a cool spotting!
Gerardo Aizpuru
I thought the same at first look Shekainahdalaban but now i´m not very sure!!
Maria dB
Another interesting spotting!
Gerardo Aizpuru
Thanks oxyjack!! I appreciate the time you are taking to ID this guy.
oxyjack
We probably have this species in our collection at UC Berkeley. One of our former entomologists was an expert on long-horned beetles from Mexico. Unfortunately, he passed away a few years ago, and I don't know this family well enough to narrow it down further. I'll let you know if I can find out any more about what species it might be.
oxyjack
Cool beetle Gerardo! The best ID I can give here is that it's a long-horned beetle, Family Cerambycidae. How big was it?
Gerardo Aizpuru
Gracias Sergio estoy anonadado espere mucho tiempo y simplemente no se movio.

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Mission
Mexico Horn of Plenty
Mission
Yucatan Peninsula Biodiversity
Photographed
PublishedMarch 24, 2012

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