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Cerambycid, Brazil

June 2007. Two photos of an insect found inside dried bamboo, Phyllostachys aurea, in Brizil. The nsects are 35 mm x 5 mm.

The insects were identified as longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae). Cerambycid larvae are borers in wood or herbaceous stems, and if the beetle was found inside the bamboo stem then it was probably attacking it. But there is also the possibility that the beetle was simply sheltering inside the stem, but only if it was able to get in as an adult.

A species identification may provide host plant information – if anything is recorded.