FLAT-FACED LONGHORN BEETLE
Acanthoderes quadrigibba
LONGHORN BEETLES (Cerambycidae)
This beetle is mottled brown with two white patches on its elytra. It is about 2/5 inches long, with black-and-white-banded antennae of the same length.
This beetle is active from April to September. It was photographed in Childs Hollow in Fontenelle Forest although its overall occurrence there is unknown. Larvae feed in soft decayed wood of numerous hardwood trees.
This beetle belongs to the flat faced long horned beetle subfamily Laminae. It formerly was in the genus Aegomorphus.
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