Beetles of the Cuyamaca Mountains
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Cerambycidae: Longhorned Beetles


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Tragosoma pilosicorne
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Tragosoma pilosicorne
     
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains

As of 2016, I have only observed two specimens of this species at my patio black light.
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Prionus californicus
Male

     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Prionus californicus
Male
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Prionus californicus
Male
     
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


A large reddish male, but with 12 antennal segments, so it is P. californicus, and not P. lecontei (which has 13 antennal segments).
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Prionus californicus
Female
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Prionus lecontei
Male
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Prionus lecontei
Male
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Prionus lecontei
Male
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Prionus lecontei
Male
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Prionus lecontei
Female
     
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


The pictured female was the first female of this species I had seen. She was found several feet up clinging to a black light sheet in early August.
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Trichocnemis spiculatus spiculatus
Female

     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Trichocnemis spiculatus spiculatus
Female

     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Trichocnemis spiculatus spiculatus
Male

     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Trichocnemis spiculatus spiculatus
Male

     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Phymatodes grandis

Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Phymatodes nitidus

Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains

This individual was beaten from a recently dead live oak on a cool, damp day in May.
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Brothylus gemmulatus
Male
     
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


This individual came to a black light in spring.
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Brothylus gemmulatus 
Pair
     
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


This pair was seen in early June on a warm night, attracted to a black light. 
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Aneflomorpha lineare

Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains

This beetle came to a black light in summer.
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Meganoplium imbelle
     
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


This beetle came to a black light in summer.

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Styloxus fulleri
       
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


This beetle came to a black light in late spring.
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Oeme costata, Male (left) and Female (right)
       
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains

These beetles came to light in late spring. They were numerous 3-4 years after the Cedar Fire (in October of 2003), but became less so as the years passed.
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Triodoclytus lanifer
     
Engineers Road, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


This individual found on sunflower in June.
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Centrodera spurca
Female
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Centrodera spurca
Male
     
​Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains
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Anastrangalia laetifica
Male
     
Engineers Road, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains


This individual was found on Common Yarrow.
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Anastrangalia laetifica
Female
       
Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains

This individual was found on this mineral-encrusted rock in a bird bath. It turned out to be deceased.
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Necydalis cavipennis

Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains

This individual came to a black light in late May.
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Necydalis cavipennis

Cuyamaca Woods, North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains

This individual came to a black light in late May.
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Tetraopes sp.

Santa Ysabel Preserve

Observed on milkweed (Asclepias sp.) in June.


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