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Feather horned Longicorn (♂)

Piesarthrius marginellus

Description:

About 25mm body length. Nice feathery antennae which it could actively open and close. Last pic is after it finally jumped to my tee shirt so I wore it for another 30 mins :-) These cerambycidae are getting interesting.

Habitat:

Initially in a used car yard at night on the roof of a Ford Focus..

Notes:

(Last photo by Leuba because I'm no good at selfies) order: COLEOPTERA
suborder: POLYPHAGA
superfamily: CHRYSOMELOIDEA
family: CERAMBYCIDAE
subfamily: CERAMBYCINAE
tribe: Strongylurini
genus: Piesarthrius

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45 Comments (1–25)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

8-[

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 10 years ago

That camera repair seems to have been hanging about for while?

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Thank you DrNamgyalT.Sherpa. Luckily it was very cooperative and I'm still awaiting repair of my other camera. :-(

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 10 years ago

Mark let's call it the Australian Raindeer!

DrNamgyalT.Sherpa
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa 10 years ago

Mark great macro work!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

@Lauren I was pleasantly surprised to them open/close. It seemed to respond to my presence/threat ? On close inspection I guess there could be a muscle in each of those little swollen antennal segments. We found another one last night but couldn't get him to open his feathers.. just not in the mood I suppose or maybe a headache :-)

LaurenZarate
LaurenZarate 10 years ago

Congratulations Mark! This is one very gorgeous beetle. Great series! It must be so much fun to see it alive and see the way it moves the antennae. I wouldn't have suspected they could open and close the feathery extentions.

rams4d
rams4d 10 years ago

Very impressive, congrats !!!

KarzanBlbas
KarzanBlbas 10 years ago

so nice good job

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

congratulations!!

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

oh, I loved these slippers alligator. :)

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 10 years ago

Congrats Mark! Love the head gear ;)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Thanks Sergio, Adarsha, Sckel ... all Aussie males need and own thongs... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hUHZBQvCSJw/TX... but we're trying hard to give up the high-heels.

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

Fantastic beetle, congratulations again. yes, he's ready for Mardi Gras, since males do not need thongs and high heeled shoe. :)

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 10 years ago

Congratulations Mark! Like a bird on floor :P

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

Way to go, Mark, congrats. Yes, it is a huge task to get all those beetles, but think the other way around, you'll hardly come back home without one or two spottings... :-)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Thanks Jolly Martin, Tina. I wonder how hard it would be to make jewellery like this.

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

Congratulations Mark. This one sure is a showoff!

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 10 years ago

Congratulations Mark. Awesome spotting

Tiz
Tiz 10 years ago

Oh Mark! Happy that you got the honor, especially after carrying it around for 30 mins :) It happens to be very cool, so you did the right thing! Hurray for you and your Horned Longicorn today!
//The cold country of Sweden!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Thanks Kathlen, surekha, Chun. You're right Chun very similar.

KathleenMcEachern
KathleenMcEachern 10 years ago

Cool spotting and congrats on SOTD Mark!

surekha
surekha 10 years ago

Congratulations, Mark!

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 10 years ago

Reminds me of the Cyriopalus wallacei we have here.
Congratulations on the SOTD Mark !

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

8-)

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jan 28, 2014
Submitted on Jan 29, 2014

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