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Unknown Brazilian Longicorn Beetle is Cosmisoma chalybeipenne

Posted by November 26th, 2008 at 10:11 am

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Longhorn Beetles

Bug with balls in it´s antennas
Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:22 AM
Found in Brazil, near a Lake. 25 degrees average temperature on location.
Henryk Sasim
Nova Lima – Minas Gerais – Brazil

Unknown Longicorn from Brazil

Cosmisoma chalybeipenne Longicorn from Brazil

Hi Henryk,
All we can say for certain is that this is a Longicorn or Longhorned Borer Beetle in the family Cerambycidae. Sadly, there are not many websites devoted to the identification of Brazilian Beetles.

Hello Bugman:
The Museo Nacional Rio de Janeiro has an excellent online searchable database of Cerambycidae Holotypes . If you go to their site and enter the Genus name Cosmisoma you will get a list of species. All of the Cosmisoma species are characterized by the curious tufted antennae. I believe C. chalybeipenne is your longicorn beetle. Regards.

Karl

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