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Horned powder-post beetle

Amphicerus simplex

Description:

About 5 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.

Habitat:

Habitat is degraded Sonoran Desert scrub, with cholla cacti, prickly-pear cacti, saguaro cacti, creosote bush, and ironwood trees.

Notes:

This specimen was attracted to a blacklight set-up.

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1 Comment

Logs2Lumber
Logs2Lumber 8 years ago

I've been processing Ironwood logs from my friends property in San Tan Valley. A number of the logs were absolutely infested with these.

BugEric
Spotted by
BugEric

Arizona, USA

Spotted on Jun 26, 2010
Submitted on Jan 25, 2014

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