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Tribe Cerambycini
Beetle-like with long antennae.
Monastery near Kewzing Village. A rural, remote and hilly area of Sikkim. Although it was raining and October is not a good month for moth-ing, we saw many moths on the walls, stairs, gates and corridors of this monastery near the tourist town of Ravangla. It is a short drive from Kewzing. This insect was approaching a moth and I thought it was a spider...but it isn't. It is a long-horn beetle.
Body seems to have fine, silky cover - a characteristic of the genus Aeolesthes. A species of smaller size occuring in Himalaya:
https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/pla...
(only a guess! not the only genus containing "silky" species)
Spotted on Nov 13, 2016
Submitted on Nov 13, 2016
